Re: low-priority ups bug: build date

In message <1101850268.4744.87.camel@wdowlingpc>
          "William F. Dowling" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

I have no idea how that gets built. It looks like it is some horrible
throwback to when the code was held in SCCS or something. I think the
sccsfile target tries to update it but it uses an sccsinfo command
which I don't have, and which presumably wouldn't work anyway.

> 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.

Well there should be a bug tracker on sourceforge I guess although
we've never used it much so far. Either that or on the list I guess.

Tom

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Tom Hughes ([email protected])
Software Engineer, Cyberscience Corporation
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