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authorPhillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>2016-10-27 08:07:05 +0100
committerPhillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>2016-12-13 22:15:32 +0000
commitc27b645956a11fab1dd8fa189254d525390958f5 (patch)
treea32dc7bbc8758a5656b2be8f712614a9085592d6 /admin/notes
parent9e6618becaa15b104f18d54371f35f065f430f81 (diff)
downloademacs-c27b645956a11fab1dd8fa189254d525390958f5.tar.gz
Replace ldefs-boot with a much smaller file
* Makefile.in (bootstrap-build,generate-ldefs-boot): New targets. (bootstrap): Depend on bootstrap-build. * admin/ldefs-clean.el: New file. * lisp/Makefile.in (compile-first): Depend on loaddefs.el * lisp/ldefs-boot.el: Remove. * lisp/ldefs-boot-auto.el: New file. * lisp/ldefs-boot-manual.el: New file. * lisp/loadup.el: Load ldefs-boot-manual.el. * src/emacs.c (generating_ldefs_boot): New variable. (main): Check whether we are generating ldefs. * src/eval.c (autoload-do-load): Dump autoload forms to stderr when requested. * src/lisp.h (generating_ldefs_boot): New variable. * admin/gitmerge.el, admin/make-tarball.txt, admin/notes/copyright, lisp/Makefile.in, lisp/cus-dep.el, lisp/emacs-lisp/elint.el, lisp/finder.el, lisp/loadup.el, msdos/mainmake.v2: Update reference to ldefs-boot. * admin/update_autogen: Alter mechanism for ldefs-boot generation.
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diff --git a/admin/notes/copyright b/admin/notes/copyright
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@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ available.
The definition of triviality is a little vague, but a rule of thumb is
that any file with less than 15 lines of actual content is trivial. If
-a file is auto-generated (eg ldefs-boot.el) from another one in the
-repository, then it does not really matter about adding a copyright
-statement to the generated file.
+a file is auto-generated from another one in the repository, then it
+does not really matter about adding a copyright statement to the
+generated file.
Legal advice says that we could, if we wished, put a license notice
even in trivial files, because copyright law in general looks at the