Sept. 30, 2016
5:22 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
On 09/30/2016 09:04 AM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
why not replace "unknown" in the VERSION setting with the actual version at the time the archive is created?
That would mean the Makefile would differ from what's in the repository.
Why is that a problem? The current logic in the Makefile (git describe) is useless outside of a git clone. It can be modified to use the pre-defined value if it is not "unknown" so that "make version" works in a directory where tzdata is expanded. The advantage over distributing the version file is backward compatibility.