On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 8:43 AM Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jan 2021, Zack Weinberg wrote: > >> > >> Something which surprises me is that the distribution tarballs became > >> noticeably larger. > > > > This is expected. The bulk of the increase is probably due to the test > > programs used to probe for C and/or C++ 2011 support in the compilers. > > There were also some fixes for compatibility problems that involved > > emitting more code throughout the script. I can explain the > > rationale for any piece of the diff between the old and new configure > > scripts that you're curious about. > > To be clear, the size difference was intended to be due to the list of > parameters passed to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE and re-autotooling. > In fact this is still using Autoconf 2.69. Oh, I misunderstood you. > Something I found which surprised me is that Automake has added a GNU > COPYING file to my non-GNU non-GPL package. Once the file appeared in > the source directory, it seems that it continued to be used and > included in spite of the Automake options provided. > > While I see more detail sprinkled around the generated files, it seems > that this COPYING file may be the biggest issue. Hmm. If you remove COPYING, make sure that you have `foreign` in either `AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS` or the options list passed to `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE`, and then re-run automake --add-missing, does COPYING come back? My understanding is that automake --add-missing is supposed to install a copy of the GPL *only if* it's in `gnu` mode and can't find any other statement of licensing. zw
