The current snapshots are still failing because src-release
is not translating the "DATE" marker in the version number.
This results in packages whose name looks like this:

    gdb-7.6.50.DATE-cvs.tar

(which then unpacks to a directory named "gdb-7.6.50.DATE-cvs").

This is because src-release hasn't been adapted to do the
translation. Variable "VER" in the makefile is expected to
contain the version number, and is computed as follow:

| VER = ` if grep 'AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.*BFD_VERSION' $(TOOL)/configure.in >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
|           bfd/configure --version | sed -n -e '1s,.* ,,p'; \
|         elif grep AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE $(TOOL)/configure.in >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
|           sed < $(TOOL)/configure.in -n 's/AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE[^,]*, *\([^)]*\))/\1/p'; \
|         elif test -f $(TOOL)/version.in; then \
|           head -1 $(TOOL)/version.in; \
|         elif grep VERSION $(TOOL)/Makefile.in > /dev/null 2>&1; then \
|           sed < $(TOOL)/Makefile.in -n 's/^VERSION *= *//p'; \
|         else \
|           echo VERSION; \
|         fi`

Attached is a patch that fixes the problem. It re-uses create-version.sh
rather than re-implementing the code for the umpteen time...

Tom, what do you think?

This leaves the $(TOOL)/version.in branch, but as far as I can tell,
it is now dead for all of src.

ChangeLog:

        * src-release (VER): Use $(TOOL)/common/create-version.sh
        if it exists.

Tested on x86_64-linux.

-- 
Joel