From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain@cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: CVS versions of gdb have same number as stable version.
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:14:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B26861E.5020300@cygnus.com>
References: <200102161607.IAA23711@bosch.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00094.html

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
> 
>