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Re: Gratuitous reconfigures and rebuilds
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 06:08:24 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: Gratuitous reconfigures and rebuilds
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> version_string is of the form "3.A.B YYYYMMDD (foobar)". I was
> suggesting that we move _only_ the "3.A.B" bit to configure.in. That
> bit is not updated daily by a script, and when it does change you _do_
> have to reconfigure everything.
If you want to have exactly one file in CVS with the version number,
making that file be gcc/doc/include/gcc-common.texi and extracting it from
there in configure might suffice.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk