From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 104639 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2017 06:49:40 -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 104606 invoked by uid 89); 22 Sep 2017 06:49:39 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,URIBL_SBL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=dispense X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mail-out.m-online.net Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (HELO mail-out.m-online.net) (212.18.0.9) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 06:49:38 +0000 Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3xz3xW1ythz1rMkR; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:49:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.70]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3xz3xV5swnz1qrmC; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:49:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id y5t2Trxa5NTz; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:49:33 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Info: u7B/EIZiugQL8jdIIxZJO+KQn80BlfbC5RCffhB+rPNKbAVsB0pixO6uHu4QCGy6 Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-13-24.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.13.24]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:49:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EC3922C1FF9; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:49:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Andreas Schwab To: Petr Ovtchenkov Cc: Alan Modra , Joel Brobecker , Matthias Klose , Simon Marchi , Pedro Alves , Matt Rice , Fiodar Stryzhniou , Binutils , GDB Subject: Re: meaning of "Automatic date update in version.in" commits 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> X-Yow: Now I can join WEIGHT WATCHERS! Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 06:49:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20170922083141.6e968bd5@void-ptr.info> (Petr Ovtchenkov's message of "Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:31:41 +0300") Message-ID: <87y3p7fcsk.fsf@linux-m68k.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00102.txt.bz2 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. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."