Stefan Manegold wrote:
do you "only" do a "make" in the top dir, i.e., re-build only that parts that might have been changed by a "cvs update", or do you re-build from scratch? in the first case, the "last toplevel-build-date" would still require a force re-compile of some part...
You could let make on every invokation generate a build_date.c file echo "const char *BUILD_DATE=\"`date -R`\";" > build_date.c and let the file who needs the build date include it. This way it always gets recompiled.
I would use it to quickly check whether my automated nightly build has succeeded or not.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ hm, I guess, we need to talk ... ;-)
Well, it's just a makefile which does a cvs update; make clean; ./bootstrap etc, nothing really fancy here :) Arjan