I can give it a shot.  Not able to provide an ETA just yet.

Lisa

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:27 PM, nathan binkert <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I like Nate's date.cc idea... basically that says whenever you build a
> > binary, stick the current info in, but just because the info has
> > changed that's not sufficient reason to consider the binary out of
> > date.  That's the same policy we use wrt the date and time.
>
> Actually, I took a quick look and I'm not sure why date.cc works.  It
> explicitly depends on all other cc files which is why it is rebuilt,
> but I'm not sure why the date change itself doesn't trigger a rebuild.
>  It could be because __DATE__ is simply an implicit variable and the
> SCons scanner doesn't see any input changes and never scans the file
> again after the first time.
>
> We could add the hg revision to date.cc (and pass it in via a #define)
> and perhaps use the Ignore() directive on it?
>
> Lisa, want to give it a shot?
>
>  Nate
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