Re: Who write the gtk-2.0.m4 file?

[Roger Leigh]

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Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 02:23:07PM -0300, Jonathan Gonzalez V. wrote:
>> I found this file in aclocal, but it is not licensed, someone knows
>> who wrote these macros and how I can contact him? I want to know if
>> the file is under public domain or if have a license.
>
> the file is part of gtk+, as any package manager on any decent GNU/Linux
> can tell you.  The author is Owen Taylor.
>
> The gtk+ package in at http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtk+/
>
> As the file has no special license, I'd guess it is covered by LGPL, as the
> whole gtk+.

If you want to base a new macro upon AM_PATH_GTK*, try AC_PATH_LIB:

http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/rleigh/ac_path_lib.html

which is a generic version of the same (though heavily developed
since!).  You can easily wrap it with a custom macro that expands this
with some specific arguments.  It also has companion macros:

http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/rleigh/ac_config_libconfig_in.html
http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/rleigh/ac_config_pkgconfig_in.html

to generate -config script and pkg-config templates, respectively.

However... the world has since moved to pkg-config, making these
obsolete (thank goodness--they were a nightmare to debug!).


Regards,
Roger

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