[Sound-open-firmware] [PATCH] configure: reset build count every time autogen.sh is run.

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

On 11/30/17 1:44 PM, Liam Girdwood wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 10:39 -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>> On 11/30/17 5:29 AM, Liam Girdwood wrote:
>>> autogen.sh rebuilds the build system so also reset any build count to 0.
>>
>> what happens if you run
>>
>> ./configure --with-platform=baytrail
>> make
>> ./configure --with-platform=cherrytrail
>> make
>>
>> Looks to me like the build count will be misleading?
>>
> 
> IMO this is not really for versioning, but just a number that is
> meaningful/useful only to the developer. i.e. as a way to track running
> development binaries match the last build. Using autgen.sh just allows
> the number to grow so that we don't see lots of build 0 when testing
> changes on multiple platforms.

Fair-enough. I still think we should have a platform identifier matching 
the build configuration to detect potential issues, e.g. using a 
baytrail firmware for a cherrytrail device.