Yes, having INSTALL get overwritten was a pain, and I never understood what the point was forcing an all-to-general and vague INSTALL file which is what autotools tends to foist on you.
So with this change, I have checked into git a COPYING file. I don't see a disadvantage of doing that. And there is a disadvantage relying on autoreconf to get it -- one can't be sure you will get what was intended. So again, thanks for these (and the other) changes. On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Pete Batard <[email protected]> wrote: > A couple more commits have just been pushed to my repo. > > The first one, that enforces LF on config.rpath is for cygwin, since it > has a problem otherwise. > > The second one, is to prevent INSTALL from being rewritten, as it's > getting slightly bothersome otherwise. > I flagged it internal as it adds the foreign attribute to > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, which I'm not sure you'd want in what is really a pure > GNU project, and also because it results in no COPYING file being created > => a global license file is now missing. > I'll leave Rocky decide whether he wants to add an explicit COPYING and > carry out something like that for mainline, to so that the INSTALL file is > left alone. > > Regards, > > /Pete > >
