Re: eliminating start-up message for non-interactive sessions

[John W. Eaton]

On 01/21/2015 04:49 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> The warranty got me to wondering.  Maybe it would be convenient to have
> a "make warranty" which runs a simple program that searches the source
> tree making sure that each file has a warranty notice, and matches that
> of some canonical warranty in the source tree somewhere.  One could
> change the canonical version of the warranty, then run "make warranty"
> and all files would have, for example YYYY-2013 changed to YYYY-2015. It
> could be a C program compiled with "make" or even an Octave script used
> after Octave is compiled.  So, if the warranty is to change with a new
> year or whatever, change the canonical version, run "make warranty", and
> then all the file changes will show up in Mercurial before committing
> the changes.

Take a look at the build-aux/update-copyright script that is part of 
gnulib.  It might require some modification to work with Octave's 
copyright notices, but it would be a good starting point.

Gnulib also provides some other tools for keeping things consistent in 
source files.  Take a look at the top-level Makefile and top/maint.mk 
files in the gnulib sources.  I have no objection to using similar 
things for Octave.

jwe