I can live with that... I never build from a subdir. I think it's quite logical as well to require a full build for consistency on the build number/date.
I agree too, I mostly compile from the top dir as well. It just would be nice to have access to this "last toplevel-build-date";
do you "only" do a "make" in the top dir, i.e., re-build only that parts that might have been changed by a "cvs update", or do you re-build from scratch? in the first case, the "last toplevel-build-date" would still require a force re-compile of some part...
I might have a look into this, but not today... maybe even not this week, sorry ...
I would use it to quickly check whether my automated nightly build has succeeded or not.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ hm, I guess, we need to talk ... ;-)
Stefan