low-priority ups bug: build date

Hi Tom,

When I did this with my freshly-built-from-CVS-source ups:
  $ ups -v
I was surprised to see
  ups version 3.38beta1-cvs (build date: Fri Oct 25 16:57:55 BST 2002)

I thought my install was bad and I was getting an old build somehow.
Actually, this string is hard-coded in the source:

$ grep 'build date: ' ups/*.[ch]
ups/sccsdata.c: "ups version 3.38beta1-cvs (build date: Fri Oct 25
16:57:55 BST 2002)",

An sccsdata.c file appears in several directories.  I guess the "build
date" should be computed and stuffed in there during the make process.

BTW, what is the best way to report things like this?
[email protected]? sourceforge? Direct to you/ianedwards?
In general I don't like to spam developers especially with little stuff,
but I don't want to send a report someplace it will get lost.

Thanks again for the help with the solaris build.

Will


On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 07:16, Tom Hughes wrote:
> In message <1101745158.7954.364.camel@wdowlingpc>
>         William F. Dowling <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I pulled the source from CVS on sourceforge.  The build and a trivial
> > test worked for me under Linux!  Thanks! But then I tried to build under
> > Solaris and I got compile errors in the build. I got the same errors
> > whether compiling under gcc 2.95.3 or under gcc 3.2.3.  Do you think
> > this is a configuration problem?
> 
> It was a problem with Solaris builds that I introduced some months
> ago when I did the x86-64 port for Linux. It should be fixed now.
> 
> Tom
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William F. Dowling
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215-386-0100 x-1156



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