Re: CVS versions of gdb have same number as stable version.

Andrew Cagney
2001-06-12T14:14:00Z

I _think_ this problem is now fixed.

Andrew

> Okay, I'm looking at a PR (gdb/7), and the user has pasted in their
> gdb startup message:
>
> GNU gdb 5.0
> Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...
>
> Quick, which version of gdb is this?
>
> It might be gdb 5.0. Or it might be any CVS version of gdb made between
> the release of gdb 5.0 and 2001-01-24 (when the copyright date changed
> to 2001).
>
> This bothers me. I've filed a PR about it.
>
> Can we please use something other than "5.0" for CVS gdb, such as
> "5.1-experimental-$(DATE)", or even just "5.1-experimental"?
>
> Michael
>
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