My memory may be corrupted, but if not, I think build number starts from 1
and increases by 1, and what I found with the latest source is that

the 1st build got number 23.0.60.2
&
the 2nd build 23.0.60.4

that is what I think weird.

MFG,


On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:

> CHENG Gao <chenggao@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I found a weird problem with my Emacs build (from trunk).
> > I grabbed fresh Emacs source with cvs, and the first build got number
> > 23.0.60.2, and several days later I built again after "cvs update", and
> > the version number became 23.0.60.4.
> >
> > Is this deliberate or is there a bug?
>
> This is how the Emacs buildsystem works since more than 14 years.  The
> build number is incremented whenever Emacs is dumped, based on which
> executable files exit in the build directory.
>
> Andreas.
>
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