On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:58:05PM +1100, Ben Elliston wrote: > > I like this, but what if you also did an svn status to see if there > > were any modifications WRT the branch/revision and then add either > > 'clean' or 'modified' to the information. > > I think this is a good idea (and don't mind the idea of `svn status' > being run from gcc_update to do so), but I wonder if it's necessary to > continue to include the date in the version.c file? > > I presume the main reason that the date was placed in version.c in the > first place was that we had no other way to place an overall > identifier on the tree revision with CVS. However, SVN now gives us > one. Including the date now just makes the version string unwieldly, > IMHO.
In my patch, gcc/REVISION is created by gcc_update. If you don't use gcc_update, gcc/REVISION may not be there. In any case, when we agree on what to put in gcc/REVISION, I can provide a new patch. H.J.
