[Rd] SVN-REVSION altered when building R-devel out of tree from last snapshot

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Martin Maechler wrote:

>    Herve> Today I downloaded and compiled the last R-devel snapshot.
>    Herve> The SVN-REVISION in the tarball contains the following:
>
>    Herve> Revision: 36792
>    Herve> Last Changed Date: 2005-12-18
>
>    Herve> But after compiling on Unix (I compiled out of tree), 
>
>i.e. "in a separate build directory tree"
>
>    Herve> I ended up with an SVN-REVSION file containing:
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>    Herve> Revision: unknown
>    Herve> Last Changed Date: Today
>
>    Herve> in the build tree.
>
>I can confirm this wrong behavior (Linux Redhat EL4).
>There must be something not yet perfect in our 'make' setup
>there.  If we are not in the srcdir, we create a 'non-tarball'
>file which I think is wrong;  in any case, this is buglet we'll fix.
>  
>
Hi Martin,

This problem was fixed in today's R-devel tarball 
(R-devel_2005-12-20.tar.bz2).
Thanks!

H.

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