On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 12:22 -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> By having it as a custom_target with build_always, every "ninja -C
> build" would rebuild Xorg for the new date/time, even if the rest of
> Xorg didn't change.
> 
> We could build the rest of Xorg into a static lib, and regenerate
> date/time when the static lib changes and link that into a final Xorg,
> but BUILD_DATE/TIME is such a dubious feature (compared to including a
> git sha, which is easy with meson) it doesn't seem worth the build
> time cost.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <[email protected]>

remote: I: patch #174852 updated using rev 
937ed782ae5e4e0da739f0630d1681b3754f0281.
remote: I: patch #174851 updated using rev 
2b080a14c87fc9e5f77fc3361297ac332aa04f02.
remote: I: patch #174854 updated using rev 
05e7e8b587dd9d37e8beadc72ab993f028c47fa1.
remote: I: patch #174853 updated using rev 
5abaa50b292798370a665ace5eec56fd830be226.
remote: I: 4 patch(es) updated to state Accepted.
To ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/xserver
   a49379b604..5abaa50b29  master -> master

- ajax
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