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| author | Ian Lynagh <ian@well-typed.com> | 2013-06-07 22:37:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Ian Lynagh <ian@well-typed.com> | 2013-06-07 22:37:04 +0100 |
| commit | 0d860381cdca9ed9d92dc315358072a84696ba08 (patch) | |
| tree | 00cafb2cfec31fa3ecb1f5cf11fddb69fb0d1767 /aclocal.m4 | |
| parent | a28731b3a14ff6ef9c7dca8327d073e6ebb6b773 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-0d860381cdca9ed9d92dc315358072a84696ba08.tar.gz | |
Improve the version numbers generated by the build system
If we can't find a better date to use, then use today's date.
Diffstat (limited to 'aclocal.m4')
| -rw-r--r-- | aclocal.m4 | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/aclocal.m4 b/aclocal.m4 index 10c460bbfa..be0d113d36 100644 --- a/aclocal.m4 +++ b/aclocal.m4 @@ -1551,6 +1551,15 @@ if test "$RELEASE" = "NO"; then AC_MSG_RESULT(given $PACKAGE_VERSION) else AC_MSG_WARN([cannot determine snapshot version: no .git directory and no VERSION file]) + dnl We'd really rather this case didn't happenm but it might + dnl do (in particular, people using lndir trees may find that + dnl the build system can't find any other date). If it does + dnl happen, then we use the current date. + dnl This way we get some idea about how recent a build is. + dnl It also means that packages built for 2 different builds + dnl will probably use different version numbers, so things are + dnl less likely to go wrong. + PACKAGE_VERSION=${PACKAGE_VERSION}.`date +%Y%m%d` fi fi |