Re: updating copyright years

[Joel E. Denny]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Jim Meyering wrote:

> > From f7aecbdf27eea1a0a6eb0960dbb34627ff56ccb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Joel E. Denny <address@hidden>
> > Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:37:54 -0400
> > Subject: [PATCH] update-copyright-tests: correctly test EOL=\r\n handling
> >
> > * tests/test-update-copyright.sh: Add back the \r on each line,
> > and add a comment saying it shouldn't be removed.
> 
> Thanks, but I couldn't easily apply that, using git-am:

> and besides, mixing line endings in version-controlled
> files is not sustainable, since some editors tend to
> correct such anomalies.

Ok.

> So how about this instead?

That works for me.

> [BTW, it'd be good to use a "compare" function as defined in
> test-vc-list-files-cvs.sh, in case diff is not available or
> does not honor the -u option. ]

Ok.

Also in test-update-copyright.sh, I'm invoking perl to avoid using "date 
+%C%y" because the Autoconf manual says the latter is not portable.  Is 
there a better way?  update-copyright already invokes perl, so I figured 
it didn't matter.

>  TMP=$TMP_BASE-dos-eol
> -cat > $TMP <<EOF
> -Rem \r\n on each line is intentional; don't change-->

That comment is redundant now.

> -Rem Copyright (C) 87, 88, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997,
> -Rem 98, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,  2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
> +tr @ '\r' > $TMP <<EOF
> +Rem \r\n on each line is intentional; don't change-->@
> +Rem Copyright (C) 87, 88, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997,@
> +Rem 98, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,  2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,@
>  Rem 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

That last line needs the @ too.

Are you working on patches for all of this?  If not, let me know, and I'll 
get to it soon.

Thanks.