[bug #61052] Different version in "nroff" from that in "groff"

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #61052 (project groff):

                  Status:                    None => In Progress            
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden               

    _______________________________________________________

Follow-up Comment #1:

It appears that Makefile.am lets the .version file get incredibly stale.

Here's mine.

+version+
$ cat .version
1.22.4.rc2.3-bf01
-version-

Since it's not the mtime but the contents that matter, I think I will make a
.PHONY target for the temporary .version-t and then use cmp and mv to replace
.version with it if they differ.  This way .version-t will get updated on
_every_ build, but it'll only trigger an avalanche of dependency builds after
actual commits (or rebases) change the version string.

For the problem reported, once the above is done, adding a dependency on the
.version file to the nroff target in nroff.am should do the trick.


    _______________________________________________________

Reply to this item at:

  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61052>

_______________________________________________
  Message sent via Savannah
  https://savannah.gnu.org/