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List:       autoconf
Subject:    Re: AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE is obsolescent.
From:       "Benjamin Reed" <rangerrick () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-04-09 20:00:54
Message-ID: 57eba2250804091300g664a3b5fp77282f97a13aaab7 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
<bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:


> Many projects using autoconf are not distributed according to GPL and have
> no interest in becoming so.  For example, if xntp required a proprietary
> clock driver and used gnulib modules, then the binary could not be
> distributed unless that proprietary clock driver is also distributed in
> relinkable form so an arbitrary user could re-link xntp.

Sure, but in this case the suggestion was to use their m4 macros for
the extended long long tests, which I would assume means only your
autoconf bits are "infected".

In fact, looking at that particular test, it looks like
BSD-with-advertise:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=m4/longlong.m4;h=15bf9dacadb85b8802381eafddeb9fc6556c067d;hb=90ed634eb36631a208dc13277e97fbaeba20eac3


-- 
Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick
Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development
http://www.racoonfink.com/


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