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Re: [doc/gdbint.texinfo] \xdef\manvers{\$Revision: 1.142 $}
- To: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- Subject: Re: [doc/gdbint.texinfo] \xdef\manvers{\$Revision: 1.142 $}
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 00:28:32 -0400
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- References: <3B297CFE.4030207@cygnus.com> <7A1.B6616B56@apple.com>
> Without researching it, I'll guess that this is old junk that Gilmore
> added long ago, on the theory that cvs commits would result in a new
> version number that could show up in a formatted manual. Of course,
> since it's for TeX only, doesn't help with info files, web pages (the
> web not yet having been invented at the time!), etc.
>
> It would be maximally careful to check that the macro isn't secretly
> referenced inside texinfo.tex, but other than that I don't know of a
> reason not to just whack this.
Since neither Eli nor you could find a reason for it, I'm going to wack
it (real soon now).
Andrew