Re: On automated commits
Sam James <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.binutils,gmane.comp.gdb.devel |
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| Organization | Gentoo |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Alan Modra <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 11:17:04AM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> > I personally have never liked these automated commits, and I can't >> > recall ever using the date they provide. >> > >> > I also don't believe these dates are used here at AdaCore. >> > >> > So +1 from me for removing these. >> >> Same here. >> >> I know that some people found them useful, but I don't remember why >> unfortunately. > > The date is useful when looking at bug reports from people who might > be building from development sources. It also becomes part of the > libbfd.so name for anyone building and installing development > binutils. We don't make any API promises regarding libbfd, so it is > more important than usual to pick up the correct libbfd. I think we should be able to arrange for it to pop up in --version & SONAME but this is a good point I'd not thought of wrt ABI.
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