Re: Current binutils snapshots archives missing sequence number?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 22 March 2013 00:12:38 Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]" <address@hidden> writes:
> > There used to be something like a snapshot sequence number (52, 90) like
> > in these:
> > 
> > binutils-2.22.52.tar.bz2    21249 KB        7/27/2012       12:00:00 AM
> > binutils-2.22.90.tar.bz2    20362 KB        7/27/2012       12:00:00 AM
> > 
> > but seems no longer to be the case for more recent snapshot(s):
> > 
> > binutils-2.23.0.tar.bz2     20948 KB        11/6/2012       9:05:00 AM
> > binutils.tar.bz2    22594 KB        3/18/2013       5:43:00 AM
> > binutils-.tar.bz2   22594 KB        3/18/2013       5:43:00 AM
> 
> This may have been broken since this change:
> 
> 2012-07-27  Mike Frysinger  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * configure.in (AC_INIT): Call with the args bfd and 2.22.52.
>       (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Remove args.
> 
> See the way that VER is set in the top-level src-release script.

i have no idea how src-release gets invoked.  `git grep src-release` doesn't
show anything useful, 

maybe this patch will help:
--- a/src-release
+++ b/src-release
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ SUPPORT_FILES = list-of-support-files-for-tool-in-question
 # NOTE: No double quotes in the below.  It is used within shell script
 # as VER="$(VER)"
 VER = `        if grep 'AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.*BFD_VERSION' $(TOOL)/configure.in 
>/dev/null 2>&1; then \
-         sed < bfd/configure.in -n 's/AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE[^,]*, 
*\([^)]*\))/\1/p'; \
+         bfd/configure --version | sed -n -e '1s,.* ,,p'; \
        elif grep AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE $(TOOL)/configure.in >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
          sed < $(TOOL)/configure.in -n 's/AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE[^,]*, 
*\([^)]*\))/\1/p'; \
        elif test -f $(TOOL)/version.in; then \
-mike

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