[jicman]

Greetings.

the autobuildnumber that is created by bud-build has been broken for a while. It used to work, but for a while now, it just does not work. It does not create the _bn.d file and it does not update those that have been previously created. I am following this,

http://svn.dsource.org/projects/build/trunk/Docs/autobuild.html

and also this,

http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D.learn&artnum=141&header

and nothing. This is what I am getting...

[csauls]

One quirk I have found out on my own which you may check in your code, is that Build expects an explicitly private import for the auto-build-number module. Aka, for any module 'foo' you must 'private import foo_bn;' to get it's auto_build_number.

On a side note, I think Build's generation of this file needs a couple of perks. Perk 1 -- make the value a constant, rather than just a global variable. Perk 2 -- A Build pragma() for suppressing build number incrementing (required before its host import).
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Chris Nicholson-Sauls

[jicman]

Well, those perks wouldn't help me now...

But thanks for the help. That private keyword fixed the problem. But, here is a question, I thought that this statement,

import foo;

is converted by the compiler to,

private import foo;

if I am not mistaken, I remember a discussion on the newsgroup about this. Am I correct or way off base?

By the way, I have been way off base before...

Thanks for the help, Chris.