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[Julian Waters]

Hi Magnus,

While looking through the now resolved JDK-8274980
<https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8274980> one discussed
possibility in particular caught my eye:
"The one thing remaining now to make me fully happy wrt version numbers, is
if we could stop hard-coding them into files during build, and instead have
interested parties read it from a text file."

By hardcoded files, are you referring to the files generated when configure
is run? In my opinion a separate text file wouldn't be needed if a flag is
set somewhere, and we could instead modify the generated spec.gmk to run
other support scripts to determine VERSION_BUILD if it hasn't been set yet
(ie shifting automated version detection to when make is called by changing
spec.gmk.in to an absolute value if --with-version-opt was passed, and
compile time check otherwise). perhaps by escaping bash variables into make
while it's running. What do you think?

Thanks for your time and I'm really sorry if I'm troubling you on this,
have a great day! :)

best regards,
Julian