Re: [PATCH] Support building development version without git

[Ethan A M. <me...@uw...>]

On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 16:31:06 PDT Dima Kogan wrote:
> Dima Kogan <gn...@di...> writes:
> 
> > Ethan Merritt <eam...@gm...> writes:
> >
> >> If you are building from a snapshot, the correct date should be the
> >> date of the snapshot. I don't know how to do that. Do you?
> >
> > This should be encoded in the snapshot in some way.

> Looking at the patch, I think that we should generate the timestamp.h at
> snapshot-building time, and the Makefile in the snapshot shouldn't ever
> generate it or delete it. Reasonable?

It sounds reasonable to me.

This seems to be surprisingly tricky. Previous attempts did not work out.
See commits:
	9d0f148d  	d543154a

	Ethan