From 89f1e1b445c2c50ffb61fa1327e11c475eb1b57f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Toby Goodwin <toby@paccrat.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 23:02:32 +0100
Subject: replace problematic reldate with git describe (thanks @RamKromberg)

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 configure.ac | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'configure.ac')

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e86bef6..de243a6 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ dnl Our package name, version, ...
 AC_INIT([rc], [1.7.4])
 
 dnl ... and release date
-RELDATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
-AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(RELDATE, "$RELDATE", [Release date])
+DESCRIPTION=$(git describe || echo '(git description unavailable)')
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(DESCRIPTION, "$DESCRIPTION", [Release date])
 
 dnl Get things going...
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([rc.h])
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