2012-06-04 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / gdb / README

diff --git a/gdb/README b/gdb/README
index 0ee97050be33b82e6159374cceb7e50cdcaca990..33516ac9ea013cd3f66f91fc6a79dfe157f7f847 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/README
+++ b/gdb/README
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ format.  On its own, TeX cannot read, much less typeset a Texinfo file.
 `gdb-VERSION/texinfo' directory.
 
    If you have TeX and a DVI printer program installed, you can typeset
-and print this manual.  First switch to the the `gdb' subdirectory of
+and print this manual.  First switch to the `gdb' subdirectory of
 the main source directory (for example, to `gdb-VERSION/gdb') and then type:
 
       make doc/gdb.dvi
@@ -446,10 +446,10 @@ prefer; but you may abbreviate option names if you use `--'.
      Build GDB with the gdbtk GUI interface.  Requires TCL/Tk to be
      installed.
 
-`--with-libunwind'
-     Use the libunwind library for unwinding function call stack.  See
-     http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/index.html fro details.
-     Supported only on some platforms.
+`--with-libunwind-ia64'
+     Use the libunwind library for unwinding function call stack on ia64
+     target platforms.
+     See http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/index.html for details.
 
 `--with-curses'
      Use the curses library instead of the termcap library, for
@@ -638,6 +638,26 @@ testsuite `standalone', without it being part of the GDB source tree.
 
 See the DejaGNU documentation for further details.
 
+
+Copyright and License Notices
+=============================
+
+Most files maintained by the GDB Project contain a copyright notice
+as well as a license notice, usually at the start of the file.
+
+To reduce the length of copyright notices, consecutive years in the
+copyright notice can be combined into a single range.  For instance,
+the following list of copyright years...
+
+    1986, 1988, 1989, 1991-1993, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
+
+... is abbreviated into:
+
+    1986, 1988-1989, 1991-1993, 1999-2000, 2007-2011
+
+Every year of each range, inclusive, is a copyrightable year that
+could be listed individually.
+
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