From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31628 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2017 22:35:36 -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 31602 invoked by uid 89); 22 Sep 2017 22:35:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS,URIBL_SBL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=k9, Hx-languages-length:933, K9 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mail-oi0-f68.google.com Received: from mail-oi0-f68.google.com (HELO mail-oi0-f68.google.com) (209.85.218.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 22:35:34 +0000 Received: by mail-oi0-f68.google.com with SMTP id z73so231284oia.0; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 15:35:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:subject:to:cc:from :message-id; bh=KpbORrDgIB+lbg9t63JDs1lKKXVrf2emfcB61RTpdkk=; b=g3t59OZD/4zHWt73S9KmPbeny/H/rXspehle6EQ1NFsJKXPtfALRm43kStyklA10PD UySAUxN4k74o+ApIPjamTl4l2mjT1XFrnG/86qyIHPBvJXQbmho10ip3YVekZXZ6harS p40nuC6zAxqZkdxm2exnK0ao8o0LjiZogxdDsjpk0qXH1yOG2emdrH1wsUP/hHfyc85E uz4HBfrbrKHzrYw/9OIof8kUyV/60YPv7Ttx7Lo37eOBjSw1at4bzJdrm7A550w5uVtV RpOGChTG5CH1mh9p4zlDmdaSOfPwlLhrpSBH6zQg8KCUyiYzzBjSAsU2tDsj2juICMl6 K/1A== X-Gm-Message-State: AHPjjUhkK2ah1of2egJF74GO/Qmo3hSFb+kUvLxctu15GLeeO3VOcF+Q PaxVQBTKmo8XLSIODC8unk4V7iIW X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QD1Bj/WU7zChc9na83glXEq3d2gVC5i4b5TcuWAqo+Zce+8WSrrYgntXKS3zTXDSoyL6wXF5Q== X-Received: by 10.202.1.70 with SMTP id 67mr795468oib.303.1506119733177; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 15:35:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [100.171.231.241] ([172.56.6.3]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e197sm1519692oib.48.2017.09.22.15.35.24 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 22 Sep 2017 15:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 22:35:00 -0000 User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <87y3p7fcsk.fsf@linux-m68k.org> References: <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> <20170921163358.twez7kbewucjalwi@adacore.com> <20170921195153.4ed9f319@void-ptr.info> <20170921170031.czr6to24sarve2or@adacore.com> <20170921203857.06810b63@void-ptr.info> <20170921235936.GB25070@bubble.grove.modra.org> <20170922083141.6e968bd5@void-ptr.info> <87y3p7fcsk.fsf@linux-m68k.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: meaning of "Automatic date update in version.in" commits To: binutils@sourceware.org,Andreas Schwab ,Petr Ovtchenkov CC: Alan Modra ,Joel Brobecker ,Matthias Klose ,Simon Marchi ,Pedro Alves ,Matt Rice ,Fiodar Stryzhniou ,Binutils ,GDB From: "H.J. Lu" Message-ID: <7F438DCC-E2AC-45A1-86CB-71A1C01E89FA@gmail.com> X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00111.txt.bz2 On September 22, 2017 2:49:31 PM GMT+08:00, Andreas Schwab wrote: >On Sep 22 2017, Petr Ovtchenkov wrote: > >> I.e. development process of kernel or glibc (ABI is important and >"source >> identification" important too, isn't it?) dispense of such technique, > >Unlike kernel and glibc, libbfd and libopcodes do not maintain ABI >compatibility, and never will. > >> but binutils prefer to follow tradition from 1994 that was useful >> for publicly inaccessible CVS repo + public tarball on FTP. > >bfd/version.h has been added in 2001, not 1994. It still works very >well, no need to change anything that isn't broken. > >Andreas. We should try not to update DATE in version.h if there is no change otherwise. It can be done by remembering the last commit. Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.