Bug 18203

Summary: xorg-server reports release date as BuildDate
Product: xorg Reporter: Peter Breitenlohner <peb>
Component: Server/GeneralAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium Keywords: patch
Version: 7.4 (2008.09)   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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patch to prevent distribution of generated files none

Description Peter Breitenlohner 2008-10-24 04:33:03 UTC 
the xorg-server-1.5.2 tarball contains several files that are (re-)generated by configure. In a VPATH build these distributed files may be used instead of the generated ones. In particular the server reports

Build Date: 10 October 2008  02:26:37PM

taken from the distributed hw/xfree86/common/xf86Build.h.

The attached patch should fix this for future releases.
Comment 1 Peter Breitenlohner 2008-10-24 04:34:33 UTC 
Created attachment 19847 [details] [review]
patch to prevent distribution of generated files
Comment 2 Julien Cristau 2008-10-24 06:42:00 UTC 
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 04:33:04 -0700, bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org wrote:

> The attached patch should fix this for future releases.
> 
i fixed this 3 months ago already...
Comment 3 Peter Breitenlohner 2008-10-24 06:55:24 UTC 
Maybe so in git, but certainly not in the xorg-server-1.5.2 tarball as of 2008-10-10
Comment 4 Julien Cristau 2008-10-24 07:00:29 UTC 
> --- Comment #3 from Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>  2008-10-24 06:55:24 PST ---
> Maybe so in git, but certainly not in the xorg-server-1.5.2 tarball as of
> 2008-10-10

right, the fix is in git master, not 1.5. closing again.

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