[BRLTTY] Question

[adrian at pa0rda.nl]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 05:18:47AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by adrian at pa0rda.nl on 2015/09/15 at 09:54 +0200]
> 
> >When brltty starts up here it says:
> >brltty 5.2 rev unknown
> >
> >The question is, what is unknown?
> 
> It means that the build procedure couldn't determine which precise revision of 
> brltty 5.2 was being built. That occurs when brltty is built outside of its git 
> repository because, when doing it that way, git can't be asked what the precise 
> revision is.
> 
> >Might that influence the working of brltty?
> 
> No, not at all. It's just a piece of potentially helpful, but strictly passive, 
> information that can't be determined.
OK, tanks, that's conforting. :-)

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