src/tools/pg_bsd_indent/README This is a lightly modified version of the "indent" program maintained by the FreeBSD project. The modifications are mostly to make it portable to non-BSD-ish platforms, though we do have one formatting switch we couldn't convince upstream to take. To build it, configure the surrounding Postgres source tree, then run "make" in this directory. Optionally, run "make test" for some simple tests. You'll need to install pg_bsd_indent somewhere in your PATH before using it. Most likely, if you're a developer, you don't want to put it in the same place as where the surrounding Postgres build gets installed. Therefore, do this part with something like make install prefix=/usr/local If you are using Meson to build, the standard build targets will build pg_bsd_indent and also test it, but there is not currently provision for installing it anywhere. Manually copy the built executable from build/src/tools/pg_bsd_indent/pg_bsd_indent to wherever you want to put it. If you happen to be hacking upon the indent source code, the closest approximation to the existing indentation style seems to be ./pg_bsd_indent -i4 -l79 -di12 -nfc1 -nlp -sac somefile.c although this has by no means been rigorously adhered to. (What was that saw about the shoemaker's children?) We're not planning to re-indent to Postgres style, because that would make it difficult to compare to the FreeBSD sources. ---------- The FreeBSD originals of the files in this directory bear the "4-clause" version of the BSD license. We have removed the "advertising" clauses, as per UC Berkeley's directive here: ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change which reads: July 22, 1999 To All Licensees, Distributors of Any Version of BSD: As you know, certain of the Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD") source code files require that further distributions of products containing all or portions of the software, acknowledge within their advertising materials that such products contain software developed by UC Berkeley and its contributors. Specifically, the provision reads: " * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software * must display the following acknowledgement: * This product includes software developed by the University of * California, Berkeley and its contributors." Effective immediately, licensees and distributors are no longer required to include the acknowledgement within advertising materials. Accordingly, the foregoing paragraph of those BSD Unix files containing it is hereby deleted in its entirety. William Hoskins Director, Office of Technology Licensing University of California, Berkeley ---------- What follows is the README file as maintained by FreeBSD indent. ---------- $FreeBSD: head/usr.bin/indent/README 105244 2002-10-16 13:58:39Z charnier $ This is the C indenter, it originally came from the University of Illinois via some distribution tape for PDP-11 Unix. It has subsequently been hacked upon by James Gosling @ CMU. It isn't very pretty, and really needs to be completely redone, but it is probably the nicest C pretty printer around. Further additions to provide "Kernel Normal Form" were contributed by the folks at Sun Microsystems. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > From mnetor!yunexus!oz@uunet.UU.NET Wed Mar 9 15:30:55 1988 > Date: Tue, 8 Mar 88 18:36:25 EST > From: yunexus!oz@uunet.UU.NET (Ozan Yigit) > To: bostic@okeeffe.berkeley.edu > Cc: ccvaxa!willcox@uunet.UU.NET, jag@sun.com, rsalz@uunet.UU.NET > In-Reply-To: Keith Bostic's message of Tue, 16 Feb 88 16:09:06 PST > Subject: Re: Indent... Thank you for your response about indent. I was wrong in my original observation (or mis-observation :-). UCB did keep the Illinois copyright intact. The issue still is whether we can distribute indent, and if we can, which version. David Willcox (the author) states that: | Several people have asked me on what basis I claim that indent is in | the public domain. I knew I would be sorry I made that posting. | | Some history. Way back in 1976, the project I worked on at the | University of Illinois Center for Advanced Computation had a huge | battle about how to format C code. After about a week of fighting, I | got disgusted and wrote a program, which I called indent, to reformat C | code. It had a bunch of different options that would let you format | the output the way you liked. In particular, all of the different | formats being championed were supported. | | It was my first big C program. It was ugly. It wasn't designed, it | just sort of grew. But it pretty much worked, and it stopped most of | the fighting. | | As a matter of form, I included a University of Illinois Copyright | notice. However, my understanding was that, since the work was done | on an ARPA contract, it was in the public domain. | | Time passed. Some years later, indent showed up on one of the early | emacs distributions. | | Later still, someone from UC Berkeley called the UofI and asked if | indent was in the public domain. They wanted to include it in their | UNIX distributions, along with the emacs stuff. I was no longer at the | UofI, but Rob Kolstad, who was, asked me about it. I told him I didn't | care if they used it, and since then it has been on the BSD distributions. | | Somewhere along the way, several other unnamed people have had their | hands in it. It was converted to understand version 7 C. (The | original was version 6.) It was converted from its original filter | interface to its current "blow away the user's file" interface. | The $HOME/.indent.pro file parsing was added. Some more formatting | options were added. | | The source I have right now has two copyright notices. One is the | original from the UofI. One is from Berkeley. | | I am not a lawyer, and I certainly do not understand copyright law. As | far as I am concerned, the bulk of this program, everything covered by | the UofI copyright, is in the public domain, and worth every penny. | Berkeley's copyright probably should only cover their changes, and I | don't know their feelings about sending it out. In any case, there appears to be none at UofI to clarify/and change that copyright, but I am confident (based on the statements of its author) that the code, as it stands with its copyright, is distributable, and will not cause any legal problems. Hence, the issue reduces to *which* one to distribute through comp.sources.unix. I would suggest that with the permission of you folks (given that you have parts copyrighted), we distribute the 4.3 version of indent, which appears to be the most up-to-date version. I happen to have just about every known version of indent, including the very original submission from the author to a unix tape, later the G-Emacs version, any 4.n version, sun version and the Unipress version. I still think we should not have to "go-back-in-time" and re-do all the work you people have done. I hope to hear from you as to what you think about this. You may of course send 4.3 version to the moderator directly, or you can let me know of your permission, and I will send the sources, or you can let me know that 4.3 version is off-limits, in which case we would probably have to revert to an older version. One way or another, I hope to get a version of indent to comp.sources.unix. regards.. oz cc: ccvaxa!willcox sun.com!jar uunet!rsalz