[PATCH v5] don't keep a gdb-specific date

[Pedro Alves]

On 06/25/2013 03:06 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> H-P> The "sim" CVS module explicitly mentions (includes)
> H-P> gdb/version.in: that needs to be tweaked too, so "sim" can
> H-P> (continue to) be checked out without gdb and then built on its own.
> H-P> (Hopefully not a surprise?)  Thanks.
> 
> I think rather we have to back out the patch.
> IIRC you can't really change the definition of modules like that.
> sim using this file in gdb is an error, IMO, but not one I think is
> worth a lot of effort to fix.
> I'll prepare a reversion patch shortly.

IMO, it'd make sense to push a very light/simple "VERSION" file
that only has the date and nothing else, like

$ cat src/VERSION
20130625
$

to the top level.  Then any project in the tree could source that
single file any way it saw fit.

-- 
Pedro Alves