why is RTEMS_VERSION not set?

[Joel Sherrill]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> Am Mit, 2003-02-26 um 02.09 schrieb Till Straumann:
> > Another one for the autotool wizard ;-)
> ~~~=>
> 
> > - the subject says it all.
> >
> > Recent snapshots (20021017, 20030128) seem not
> > to set RTEMS_VERSION :-(
> It probably has not been set very much longer ... ;)
> 
> Can you elaborate what you are using it for? RTEMS_VERSION is one of the
> relics of older versions of RTEMS I'd like to see eliminated.

As a side note, I think it would be nice to have some
cpp constants like RTEMS_VERSION_MAJOR, RTEMS_VERSION_MINOR or
something that could be tested in conditional code. It has
been disccused a few times over the years but never got to a 
concrete proposal that would be useful to applciations.

> Ralf

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