Re: patch: make build.sh create deterministic C++ output

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:10:22PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Aug 2008, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > The following patch turns on Joerg's BUILDSEED feature for all
> > build.sh builds. It sets BUILDSEED to NetBSD-majorversion (i.e. right
> > now, NetBSD-4, soon NetBSD-5, etc.), and provides a -S flag so that
> > the BUILDSEED may be set to a different value if people wish.
> 
> I think it would be better to use majorversion.minorversion, so that
> -current gets a number that's distinguishable from earlier major
> releases (for example, 4.99, 5.0, 5.1, ...).

I'm not sure it is really required to do that, but if it is really
desirable using 4.99 would be better and only for -current.

Joerg