From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 95364 invoked by alias); 20 Sep 2017 20:21:09 -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 94886 invoked by uid 89); 20 Sep 2017 20:21:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*MI:sk:1505938 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: einhorn-mail.in-berlin.de Received: from einhorn-mail.in-berlin.de (HELO einhorn-mail.in-berlin.de) (217.197.80.20) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 20:21:07 +0000 X-Envelope-From: doko@ubuntu.com Received: from [192.168.178.30] (ip5f5bd693.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de [95.91.214.147]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-8+deb8u2) with ESMTP id v8KKHckY026012 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 20 Sep 2017 22:17:38 +0200 Subject: Re: meaning of "Automatic date update in version.in" commits To: Philippe Waroquiers , Mikhail Terekhov , Petr Ovtchenkov , Andreas Schwab Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker , gdb@sourceware.org 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> <1505938054.4443.8.camel@skynet.be> From: Matthias Klose Message-ID: <74520278-52b3-582f-84c2-d2b4ad2b6ef4@ubuntu.com> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 20:21:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1505938054.4443.8.camel@skynet.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00063.txt.bz2 On 20.09.2017 22:07, Philippe Waroquiers wrote: > 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. but we are talking here about sonames for development snapshots. A soname like 2.29.50.unknown doesn't change.