Re: git mirror of Libtool CVS repo

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Eric Blake wrote:
> For starters, you can't bootstrap the git repo.  Note these lines in
> configure:
>
> TIMESTAMP=`${CONFIG_SHELL} ${ac_aux_dir}/mkstamp < ${srcdir}/ChangeLog`
> package_revision=`( set $TIMESTAMP; echo $1; )`

In GraphicsMagick I do it like this:

TIMESTAMP=`awk '/^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]/ { print 
substr($1,1,4) substr($1,6,2) substr($1,9,2); exit; }' 
${srcdir}/ChangeLog`

Since we should always update ChangeLog, it makes sense to use the 
last date entered in ChangeLog.

Bob
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