From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 50169 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2017 16:34:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 50152 invoked by uid 89); 21 Sep 2017 16:34:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:34:02 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E61D956156; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 12:34:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 9kVlcTctKHfZ; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 12:34:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B31560E5; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 12:34:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A68E38305C; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:34:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Petr Ovtchenkov Cc: Matthias Klose , Simon Marchi , Pedro Alves , Matt Rice , Fiodar Stryzhniou , Andreas Schwab , Binutils , GDB Subject: Re: meaning of "Automatic date update in version.in" commits Message-ID: <20170921163358.twez7kbewucjalwi@adacore.com> References: <20170921135845.479dfc76@void-ptr.info> <024439c7-2083-d368-0138-2160e4494b81@redhat.com> <20170921152240.16bb4cc0@void-ptr.info> <8740f2a7-1300-3116-f34b-5487a8cd8b2b@redhat.com> <20170921161743.3ddc6bb9@void-ptr.info> <20170921184615.6b1e5d44@void-ptr.info> <426b9fdf-a854-6d5f-b296-df71ad0c1561@ubuntu.com> <20170921192619.412ff148@void-ptr.info> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170921192619.412ff148@void-ptr.info> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00084.txt.bz2 > Same date. From both commits I can build libbfd. From equality of > dates stamped in the source not follow ABI compatibility. > Plus > > git diff 0d8a80b95 7a261482f > > ---from different stamped dates not follow ABI incompatibility. The version number is completely different, however. I don't think anyone is saying that the date is the unique element in determining compatibility or not. -- Joel