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Re: Background of daily update changeset?
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Dmitry Samersoff <dms at samersoff dot net>, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:26:19 +1030
- Subject: Re: Background of daily update changeset?
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:28:01AM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Dmitry" == Dmitry Samersoff <dms@samersoff.net> writes:
>
> Dmitry> What is the goal of daily update of BFD_VERSION_DATE?
>
> I think you'd be better off asking on the binutils list.
>
> My guess is that it's so that snapshots can be exactly identified.
Yes. HJ distributes his "Linux binutils", based on snapshots of
mainline plus some extra patches. Other people distribute snapshots
too. The date gives us some chance of tying Joe User's bug report to
the source.
> FWIW I'm not really convinced it is all that useful.
I agree that it doesn't make much sense for gdb..
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM