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20 Sep 2017 22:07:35 +0200 Message-ID: <1505938054.4443.8.camel@skynet.be> Subject: Re: meaning of "Automatic date update in version.in" commits From: Philippe Waroquiers To: Matthias Klose , Mikhail Terekhov , Petr Ovtchenkov , Andreas Schwab Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker , gdb@sourceware.org Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 20:07:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <7716f103-1abd-a9fe-14e5-cbbe5a62eb01@ubuntu.com> References: <20170920173622.28500ccf@void-ptr.info> <87zi9p2vma.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <20170920202354.3c863857@void-ptr.info> <7217d33d-61eb-732e-dfd6-80ef4908743e@ubuntu.com> <218bf365-1f36-3531-b42b-5b48499992ed@dell.com> <7716f103-1abd-a9fe-14e5-cbbe5a62eb01@ubuntu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00062.txt.bz2 On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 21:54 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > >     ~/tmp/gdb/binutils-gdb (master)>git log -1 --format=%cd -- > > date=format:%Y%m%d > >     20170920 > > > > Then there is no need for additional commit. > > no, you can't assume that git is available for builds. In valgrind, the version.h file is build as part of the dist tarball. And if really someone just takes a copy of the sources before building and/or making the dist tarball, valgrind --version -v will just tell that the git version and date is unknown. Philippe