- convert `#` comments to `dnl`, except copyright headers, and inline
comments in `curl-complilers.m4`.
- drop empty comments.
- drop line-ending `dnl` markers. (except `zz40-xc-ovr.m4` where it's
used to produce a comment in `configure`.)
- replace `dnl` line with C comment in `AC_CHECK_HEADERS()`.
Verified to produce the same `configure` script except empty lines,
`#` comments, and C comments, with autoreconf 2.72.
Cherry-picked from #21000Closes#21246
Because automake used to delete depdirs at once (.deps) and there was an issue
with portability, curl's XC_AMEND_DISTCLEAN greps the Makefiles in an attempt
to build a list of all depfiles and delete them individually instead.
Since commit 08849db866b44510f6b8fd49e313c91a43a3dfd3, automake switched from
deleting directories to individual files. curl's custom logic now finds a lot
more results with the grep (the filtering of these results isn't great), which
causes a massive bloating of the Makefile in the order of O(n^2).
Also remove now-unused XC_AMEND_DISTCLEAN macro group
References: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/9843
References: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=59288
Reported-by: Ilmari Lauhakangas
Fixes#9843Closes#10661
- they are mostly pointless in all major jurisdictions
- many big corporations and projects already don't use them
- saves us from pointless churn
- git keeps history for us
- the year range is kept in COPYING
checksrc is updated to allow non-year using copyright statements
Closes#10205
Add licensing and copyright information for all files in this repository. This
either happens in the file itself as a comment header or in the file
`.reuse/dep5`.
This commit also adds a Github workflow to check pull requests and adapts
copyright.pl to the changes.
Closes#8869
Reported by the new script 'scripts/copyright.pl'. The script has a
regex whitelist for the files that don't need copyright headers.
Removed three (mostly usesless) README files from docs/
Closes#5141
- replace tabs with spaces where possible
- remove line ending spaces
- remove double/triple newlines at EOF
- fix a non-UTF-8 character
- cleanup a few indentations/line continuations
in manual examples
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3037
