Re: [rfc] Move Makefile.in:VERSION to VERSION file

Eli Zaretskii
2001-03-18T23:39:00Z

On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> Per discussion on the gdb@ list, this patch moves GDB's version number
> out of Makefile.in and into a separate file called (of all things :-)
> VERSION.

This will get us back into the nuisance we had with COPYING and
copying.c, due to the file-name letter-case nuisance on DOS/Windows
file systems. See this ChangeLog entry:

2000-04-03 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>

* Makefile.in (copying.c): Depend on copying.txt, not COPYING.
(copying.txt): New target, a link to COPYING.

Can we have a different name, please? Why can't we have version.c in
the first place, without any intermediaries? COPYING was an external
file, but VERSION is not, I believe.