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Re: [PATCH v5] don't keep a gdb-specific date
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>, Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 08:53:26 -0600
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] don't keep a gdb-specific date
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Pedro> IMO, it'd make sense to push a very light/simple "VERSION" file
Pedro> that only has the date and nothing else, like
Pedro> $ cat src/VERSION
Pedro> 20130625
Pedro> $
Pedro> to the top level. Then any project in the tree could source that
Pedro> single file any way it saw fit.
sim would still need the gdb copy to get the same version numbers it has
now. The BFD dependency isn't a problem as sim already depends on BFD.
The problem is the gdb-specific stuff like "7.6"
Tom