FYI: libiberty's maintainer-clean breaks if SUBDIRS is empty

Gerald Pfeifer pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Sat Apr 29 08:55:00 GMT 2000


On 29 Apr 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> I'm checking in this obvious (to me) bug-fix, so as to adopt the idiom
> used in automake-generated rules.
> [...]
> -#   Copyright (C) 1990, 91, 91 - 99, 2000
> +#   Copyright (C) 1990, 91-99, 2000

Please note that, as far as I remember, RMS once mentioned that we should
not use ranges of years but really specify each and every year in such
lists -- for some legal reasons, as usual.

(I'm well aware that you did not introduce that, the patch just brought
my attention to that.)

Gerald
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