Re: 23.0.60; etc/DOC-${version}.buildnumber

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Peter Dyballa writes:
 > 
 > Am 12.04.2008 um 22:49 schrieb Stephen J. Turnbull:
 > > Then it is very useful to have a convenient unique identifier for  
 > > each build.
 > 
 > GNU Emacs has this information when you start to send a bug report.
 > 
 > 
 > Upon configuration some files are overwritten. Upon 'make bootstrap'  
 > some more files are overwritten even twice. Upon 'make install' all  
 > files (hopefully) are overwritten. Isn't that already enough uniqueness?

No.  Because the files are overwritten, you cannot determine whether
the builds are the same or not.