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Re: Add revision number to gcc version?
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 06:35:29PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:00:10PM -0800, David Daney wrote:
> > I like this, but what if you also did an svn status to see if there were
> > any modifications WRT the branch/revision and then add either 'clean' or
> > 'modified' to the information.
> >
> > So you would get (gcc-4_1-branch revision 108596 modified) or
> > (gcc-4_1-branch revision 108596 clean)
>
> I think we already had this discussion and decided that svn status took
> too long in many cases.
I think running "svn status" in ./configure may slow down configure
a lot. Also, you may not always be able to run "svn status" in
./configure since a gcc tree may not be checked out with svn. However,
running "svn status" in ./contrib/gcc_update may not be that
noticeable.
H.J.