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Re: [PATCH] Remove Roland McGrath et al. from libc.so banner
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 10:14:51 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove Roland McGrath et al. from libc.so banner
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On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
>> This is what I am going to check in:
>>
>> * csu/version.c (banner): Remove "by Roland McGrath et al.".
>> * nptl/Banner: Remove "by Ulrich Drepper et al.".
>
> Please see what I said about being sure to update contrib.texi when
> removing such credits. I think NPTL merits adding to Ulrich Drepper's
> entry in contrib.texi (but given that, the nptl/Banner file could be
> removed completely).
I checked in my patch. Here is a patch to credit Ulrich Drepper for
libpthread in contrib.texi. OK for master?
> I think crypt/Banner can be removed (the credit is already in
> contrib.texi). The reference to a BIND version in contrib.texi should
> probably be updated when removing resolv/Banner. More credits in
> contrib.texi are needed to remove soft-fp/Banner. (libidn/Banner serves
> the purpose of indicating whether the last remaining add-on is configured
> in, so I don't suggest removing it until the add-on mechanism is also
> removed and libidn is built unconditionally - however, the corresponding
> credit could be added to contrib.texi now.)
I will get to these when I find time if no one beats me to it.
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H.J.
From 628c52afccdf8f8738855cb046b38f21a4f21bfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 10:05:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Credit Ulrich Drepper for libpthread in contrib.texi
* manual/contrib.texi: Credit Ulrich Drepper for the POSIX
Threads Library.
---
manual/contrib.texi | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/manual/contrib.texi b/manual/contrib.texi
index ffdd77191c..fff45b92b9 100644
--- a/manual/contrib.texi
+++ b/manual/contrib.texi
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ x86.
Ulrich Drepper for his many contributions in almost all parts of
@theglibc{}, including:
@itemize @bullet
+@item writing most of the POSIX Threads Library originally.
@item internationalization support, including the @code{locale} and
@code{localedef} utilities.
@item Linux i386/ELF support
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