Re: Problems with portable dumping
>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org>
writes:
sb> Olivier Galibert <galibert(a)pobox.com> writes in
sb> xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
> - compute a md5 (or sum, or whatever) of the Installation file
> at configure time
sb> This won't necessarily work. The Installation file need not
sb> necessarily change as the temacs image changes, especially for
sb> developers. I first got the core dumps after doing a `cvs
sb> update' which even with rerunning configure won't change the
sb> contents of the Installation file.
Probably you should create a stamp object just before the link step,
which contains something like
struct {
MD5HASH Installation_md5;
int system_timestamp;
}
That will clearly identify both the configuration and the build.
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