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Re: CVS versions of gdb have same number as stable version.
- To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: CVS versions of gdb have same number as stable version.
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:14:06 -0400
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <200102161607.IAA23711@bosch.cygnus.com>
I _think_ this problem is now fixed.
Andrew
> Okay, I'm looking at a PR (gdb/7), and the user has pasted in their
> gdb startup message:
>
> GNU gdb 5.0
> Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...
>
> Quick, which version of gdb is this?
>
> It might be gdb 5.0. Or it might be any CVS version of gdb made between
> the release of gdb 5.0 and 2001-01-24 (when the copyright date changed
> to 2001).
>
> This bothers me. I've filed a PR about it.
>
> Can we please use something other than "5.0" for CVS gdb, such as
> "5.1-experimental-$(DATE)", or even just "5.1-experimental"?
>
> Michael
>
>