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Re: [patch] build: random timestamps have multilib conflicts (PR other/43480)
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:46:44PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>
> > for this, but it didn't cover gcc/Makefile.in generated man pages.
> > ls --time-style isn't portable though :(.
>
> For gcc/, using the contents of gcc/DATESTAMP would seem better.
> Timestamps on files change as they are checked out, copied, checked into
> different version control systems, etc.; using the contents of a source
> file is better. For Classpath, I don't know if a local change to use
> gcc/DATESTAMP is appropriate.
Perhaps it could just use first date in ChangeLog file in that case.
Jakub