Re: [protobuf] what is M4?

2020-10-06 Thread hons...@gmail.com
Thanks for the comments. I tried with cmake and its working fine, just need to set -fPIC when building the protobufer. Best, Hong On Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 1:56:50 AM UTC-4 jfol...@gmail.com wrote: > Better yet, since everyone and their grandmother can find them on github, > just don’t

Re: [protobuf] what is M4?

2020-10-02 Thread Jory Folker
Better yet, since everyone and their grandmother can find them on github, just don’t touch them. Since you don’t need them, you’ll never have to modify them, which means you’ll never have to publish a derivative work of them. Don’t believe me? Ask a patent/copyright attorney with experience at a s

Re: [protobuf] what is M4?

2020-10-02 Thread 'Adam Cozzette' via Protocol Buffers
Those are used for the autotools build. If you're concerned about them you could just delete them all from your local repo and build with CMake or Bazel instead. On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 3:34 PM hons...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Guys, > I am trying to get the minimum set of protobuf runtime code that

[protobuf] what is M4?

2020-10-02 Thread hons...@gmail.com
Hi Guys, I am trying to get the minimum set of protobuf runtime code that can be built. Does anyone know what the M4 is doing? is it possible to remove all the m4 files? The GNU licences maybe a trouble for my project and it is used in the m4s... Thanks alot Hong -- You received this message