[Xastir] Xastir stable release 1.9.6

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Fred Erickson wrote:
>
>> Do have an idle question though: When I do a "Help" and "About" the
>> screen shows an Aug compile date but a version number of 1.9.6 on both
>> machines. I know I've updated both computers at least twice since Aug.
>> The date shown used to always change to whatever the date was when I ran
>> the compile script - I thought - in fact I used to use it to make sure I
>> didn't run update too often. I usually use the supplied "update-xastir"
>> script.
>
> xastir/src/Makefile.am has this section:
>
> --------------------------------------
> compiledate.c: $(XASTIR_SRC)
>        rm -f compiledate.c compiledate.o
>        echo 'char compiledate[] = "'"Compiled: `date`"'";' > compiledate.c
>
> remove_compiledate:
>        rm -f compiledate.c compiledate.o
> --------------------------------------
>
> That first big creates xastir/src/compiledate.c which gets compiled

s/big/bit/


> into the executable.  Look at your to see if there's a permissions

s/your/yours/


> problem or similar keeping it from getting updated when you run
> automake (from bootstrap.sh).  Perhaps try updating your
> automake/autoconf as well.

Looks like I need caffeine yet this morning.

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