Re: version.h and ChangeLog

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:30:12 +0200
Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> About $ZSH_PATCHLEVEL: Did someone try if the variable is handled/set
> properly when building from a tarball, when "git describe" isn't
> available - and if it was would throw an error?
> 
> If not, we should look at that so the next release will go smoothly.

I got patchlevel.h containing:

#define ZSH_PATCHLEVEL ""

which isn't particularly useful.

What should probably happen is that "make targz-src" should somehow
freeze the contents of patchlevel.h so that making it when untarred
doesn't update the header any further.

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