[Asterisk-Dev] Makefile changes in CVS HEAD

[Brian West]

Exactly... Because you can use a different version of say chan_iax2  
vs the cvs checkout date.

/b
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On Jun 6, 2005, at 1:20 PM, James Golovich wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Simon Lockhart wrote:
>
>
>> On Mon Jun 06, 2005 at 08:02:33AM -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>>
>>> That's correct, and it was the reason for this change. I had  
>>> hoped to
>>> have seen some discussion of this issue in the bug in Mantis, but  
>>> nobody
>>> jumped in so I figured it was safe to proceed :-)
>>>
>>
>> I see compile time as a useful thing to record, but I also see  
>> that CVS
>> checkout time is almost essential for debugging, etc.
>>
>> Could a simple script be developed which determined the timestamp  
>> of the
>> "newest" item checked out from CVS?
>>
>>
>
> Something I had suggested before but there was never any comments  
> about
> was adding a variable to every file/module.
>
> static char VERSION[] = "$Id$";
>
> that way the version would be in the code, and you could access it  
> from
> gdb.  Also show modules could display the version that was used
>
> James
>
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