Gratuitous reconfigures and rebuilds

[Joseph S. Myers]

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.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk