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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: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 12:04:36 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove Roland McGrath et al. from libc.so banner
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- References: <20170726172424.GA410@gmail.com> <20170726185030.GA26664@altlinux.org>
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:24:24AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> I will check it today if there is no objection.
>>
>> H.J.
>
> There might be configure scripts in the wild that rely on the current
> format of this banner, so please do not change it before the release.
Did you mean that it can never be changed?
>> ---
>> * csu/version.c (banner): Remove Roland McGrath et al.
>> ---
>> csu/version.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/csu/version.c b/csu/version.c
>> index e0d884dbf3..f3992ab6c8 100644
>> --- a/csu/version.c
>> +++ b/csu/version.c
>> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static const char __libc_release[] = RELEASE;
>> static const char __libc_version[] = VERSION;
>>
>> static const char banner[] =
>> -"GNU C Library "PKGVERSION RELEASE" release version "VERSION", by Roland McGrath et al.\n\
>> +"GNU C Library "PKGVERSION RELEASE" release version "VERSION".\n\
>> Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\n\
>> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.\n\
>> There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A\n\
>
>
> --
> ldv
--
H.J.