Re: On automated commits

Sam James <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.binutils,gmane.comp.gdb.devel
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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