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PATCH: warn if libgdbm linked



This is following a discussion off-list.  Linking against libgdbm in the
binary means it's covered by the GNU General Public License (even if the
binary only contains bindings to the shared library and not the code,
apparently), so it might be safer to warn that this has happened.  As
we're not using any GNU code in the source, it's not affected.

Index: configure.ac
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/configure.ac,v
retrieving revision 1.107
diff -u -r1.107 configure.ac
--- configure.ac	4 Aug 2008 17:44:35 -0000	1.107
+++ configure.ac	24 Sep 2008 08:52:03 -0000
@@ -2934,4 +2934,10 @@
 echo "See config.modules for installed modules and functions.
 "
 
-
+case x$LIBS in
+  (*-lgdbm*)
+  echo "WARNING: zsh has been linked against libgdbm.
+This means the binary is covered by the GNU General Public License.
+This does not affect the source code."
+  ;;
+esac


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