From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 126130 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2017 22:26:48 -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 126112 invoked by uid 89); 22 Sep 2017 22:26:48 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS,URIBL_SBL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=k9, K9, H*c:alternative, Hx-languages-length:1949 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mail-oi0-f67.google.com Received: from mail-oi0-f67.google.com (HELO mail-oi0-f67.google.com) (209.85.218.67) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 22:26:46 +0000 Received: by mail-oi0-f67.google.com with SMTP id v188so218964oia.1; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 15:26:46 -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=qK3QPiZfO5S/lWH4UDSJJaHErMPbsgFPRDYXN5C/mas=; b=tGMVPQiV9ylvCCGXHp3Wx1Ou/ys8qcT6IPfC82jI/sN3oLbN6ylenkaKMogpe7z0c6 CCLLwo/cxcVF2mjwaA7l3moiZcyFgdx6uDZJkpT42P+wchjtsK+IhRTLPU6VXPv5qR+s HBCm2cc1R+fHo+i2bI49w830HSkw5MWWIvqU6+LeQJn3riuEMrfOvVH3fSFgR9SZ3yAb j1LODBkWFQJSli1PSzeBadVP3U1zrV/dSfXjHaOxoSnPy7FPvlU+4e+9mgGTfWuAzgXB pxEBPIMgiqLtLMnQtGOMwPtT2NI4w3QN2nSdTnFoWWBnlzhDQgyEzAoAFbaUJSko0I/5 qGWg== X-Gm-Message-State: AHPjjUhC3MbErLvbZT5GwoKlBNQeiSZYqWu6d1fcSr1tP/6gD2sg1wlr 5c09Ja+hpyljPL1W03VXRF+4866x X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QD9kvyOIiaERtLkUcIrWo/kd0YLEsS9/8cFhDSS3uDH4NkAZcnT39oLziCVSv6VIx2yahTB6w== X-Received: by 10.202.75.211 with SMTP id y202mr782310oia.138.1506119205030; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 15:26:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [100.171.231.241] ([172.56.6.3]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o2sm1281041oia.18.2017.09.22.15.26.39 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 22 Sep 2017 15:26:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 22:26:00 -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: multipart/alternative; boundary="----71N2XZ4PSMRZAV22RWXV9R0EYZ19N5" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00110.txt.bz2 ------71N2XZ4PSMRZAV22RWXV9R0EYZ19N5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1051 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. > >--=20 >Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org >GPG Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 >4ED5 >"And now for something completely different." 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.= ------71N2XZ4PSMRZAV22RWXV9R0EYZ19N5--