Remove functions from SAMBA_VERSION_STRING

[James Peach]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 06:57 -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
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> > I would like to remove the ability to use C functions, and 
> > instead bring it back to a simple macro.  This ensures that
> > we never allocate in the fault code (as a C function in
> > this location would probably have to allocate it's return value).

we have to allocate to print a stack trace

> > As version strings should never change at runtime, any more
> > complex expressions could be included in a script to generate
> > VERSION, if required.
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> > SAMBA_VERSION_STRING could then return to being a constant string.
> > 
> > Any objections?  Metze wants this in sync between Samba3 and Samba4
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> I've never used it.  If metze wants to remove it, them
> that's fine with me since it was his code to begin with IIRC.
> 
> James, Lars?  Have you guys ever used it for packaging?

My packaging build includes a patch that sets
SAMBA_VERSION_VENDOR_SUFFIX to a string literal. Having some way to flag
that smbd is a vendor version is necessary, but I don't mind what it is.
I don't need any function calls for this.

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James Peach | jpeach at samba.org