Re: [Valgrind-users] version number?

[Mark R. <ma...@cs...>]

Thank you - that's quite clear.  I will add it to our developer's
documentation.


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Hughes [mailto:to...@co...] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 12:43 PM
To: Mark Roberts; 'valgrind-users'
Subject: Re: version number?

On 17/02/15 20:13, Mark Roberts wrote:
> Ok - I see it's been modified in the tar ball to 10.1.

No, it hasn't been modified in the tar ball. The tar ball was created from
the 3.10 branch:

   svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/branches/VALGRIND_3_10_BRANCH

not from the trunk:

   svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk

The branch was taken when 3.10.0 was released, and AC_INIT has never been
changed on that branch.

> Question: We (UW PLSE) have been making releases of our tools Fjalar 
> and Kvasir (based on Valgrind) for quite some time.  We've always just 
> sync'd our copy of the Valgrind repository to the appropriate revision 
> and merged into our source tree.  Can you think of any problems (other 
> than AC_INIT) with doing it this way instead of using the tar ball?

If you want to use svn, but get a version that corresponds to a given
upstream release, then use the appropriate tag, for example:

   svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/tags/VALGRIND_3_10_1

Tom

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