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| -rw-r--r-- | aclocal.m4 | 9 |
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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 |