Re: empty TIMESTAMP, stamp-vcl

2007-03-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Gary V. Vaughan on 3/28/2007 10:07 AM: > Consider that the timestamp is there to allow us to pull the exact version > a bug-reporter used by reference to the version string we hope they quote. > It doesn't actually matter what we use for t

Re: empty TIMESTAMP, stamp-vcl

2007-03-28 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Eric, On 28 Mar 2007, at 12:41, Eric Blake wrote: I still hope to incorporate the ideas in libtool so that m4 no longer requires GNU make (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2007-03/ msg00048.html). Done :-D In the meantime, I have been playing with git, which does not ex

Re: empty TIMESTAMP, stamp-vcl

2007-03-28 Thread James Youngman
On 3/28/07, Gary V. Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ii) except that doesn't tell us which gnulib release was used, so we need to factor the gnulib timestamp information too :-( I think we can maybe get away with just making bootstrap write a gnulib repo timestamp into a v