Feb. 10, 2017
12:42 p.m.
John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU> wrote:
I'd like to put in a plug for having the tz string in the binary file preceded by @(#) so that it appears when the what(1) utility is invoked.
An argument could be made that ident(1) is a better choice, although I don't think it really is, in part since it would require assigning a pseudokeyword like $Tz: ... $.
It's easy to support both what and ident, e.g. I sometimes have @(#) $Version: blahblah $ with the output of `git describe` instead of blahblah. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode Faeroes, Southeast Iceland: Southerly veering southwesterly 5 or 6. Very rough becoming rough. Rain or wintry showers. Good, occasionally poor.