On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:24:12AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > Well, remember make is an interpreter; the date goes into the make > : > variable $(MAKE_VERSION) so the information is available to Makefiles. > : > : Yah, but it is largely worthless. Consider that different branches > : have non-linear relationships in dates and features being present. > > Consider building NetBSD 0.9 today. As it was, MAKE_VERSION would > seem quite modern, but the make would really be quite old.
Using the last rcsid time would at least fix that... I'll ask around. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
