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Re: [RFA] bad VER in src-release causes snapshot failure
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:45:18 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFA] bad VER in src-release causes snapshot failure
- References: <20130711153403 dot GH8063 at adacore dot com> <87oba9dqba dot fsf at fleche dot redhat dot com> <20130711164204 dot GI8063 at adacore dot com>
> Either works for me. Your version has the downside of computing
> the GDB version even if not trying to build a GDB package, and
> it could also open the door for us forgetting to set VER to
> GDB_VER. On the upside, it does avoid putting some GDB-specific
> code in an expression which is otherwise pretty generic (expression
> computing VER).
I also meant to mention that my patch avoids duplicating again
the code used to compute the GDB version... It's already spread
everywhere, so not a big deal, but relatively easy to avoid by
re-using your create-version.sh script. A bit of a hack, though.
--
Joel