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[bug #61052] .version file not updated as aggressively as it should be


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [bug #61052] .version file not updated as aggressively as it should be
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 21:04:20 -0400 (EDT)
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Update of bug #61052 (project groff):

                 Summary: Different version in "nroff" from that in "groff" =>
.version file not updated as aggressively as it should be

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Follow-up Comment #3:

I got it working.  Current patch.


diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index a6b016dc..eb01f935 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -922,8 +922,15 @@ SUFFIXES += .man
 # Version files - see script 'build-aux/git-gen-version'
 EXTRA_DIST += $(top_srcdir)/.version
 BUILT_SOURCES += $(top_srcdir)/.version
-$(top_srcdir)/.version:
-       echo $(VERSION) > $@-t && mv $@-t $@
+# Regenerate a temporary version string file on every build, but update
+# the real version file's mtime only if its contents change.
+.PHONY: $(top_srcdir)/.version.tmp
+$(top_srcdir)/.version.tmp:
+       echo $(VERSION) > $@
+$(top_srcdir)/.version: $(top_srcdir)/.version.tmp
+       test -f $@ || cp $@.tmp $@
+       cmp -s $@.tmp $@ || mv $@.tmp $@
+       $(RM) -f $@.tmp
 dist-hook:
        echo $(VERSION) > $(distdir)/.tarball-version
 


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