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Re: Emacs version number (trunk build) problem
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Emacs version number (trunk build) problem |
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Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:43:51 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
CHENG Gao <address@hidden> writes:
> I found a weird problem with my Emacs build (from trunk).
> I grabbed fresh Emacs source with cvs, and the first build got number
> 23.0.60.2, and several days later I built again after "cvs update", and
> the version number became 23.0.60.4.
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> Is this deliberate or is there a bug?
This is how the Emacs buildsystem works since more than 14 years. The
build number is incremented whenever Emacs is dumped, based on which
executable files exit in the build directory.
Andreas.
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