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Re: [rfc] Move Makefile.in:VERSION to VERSION file
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: [rfc] Move Makefile.in:VERSION to VERSION file
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:36:38 +0200 (IST)
- cc: GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Per discussion on the gdb@ list, this patch moves GDB's version number
> out of Makefile.in and into a separate file called (of all things :-)
> VERSION.
This will get us back into the nuisance we had with COPYING and
copying.c, due to the file-name letter-case nuisance on DOS/Windows
file systems. See this ChangeLog entry:
2000-04-03 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
* Makefile.in (copying.c): Depend on copying.txt, not COPYING.
(copying.txt): New target, a link to COPYING.
Can we have a different name, please? Why can't we have version.c in
the first place, without any intermediaries? COPYING was an external
file, but VERSION is not, I believe.