autotools: do not write DATE file

This is not used by CI or other parts of the build system.

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 29278c16390ed2aeeee90dff8183692ae6460541..9ee0988c09ebba61f1fb5df5e8477b01af9d30b7 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - improved detection of Lefty dependencies in the Autotools build system
 - libexpr rejects printing the time (`%t`) if no format is provided
 - `-DDATE=…` option in the CMake build system has been removed
+- the Autotools build system no longer writes the DATE file and the portable
+  source tarball no longer includes this
 
 ### Fixed
 

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 8bc0ab0e90659eaad1430f7ba6873bc6c21afab1..f97f4e327520197311012e94400886821c62072b 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ doxygen:
 
 dist-hook:
        echo "@VERSION@" >VERSION
-       echo "@GRAPHVIZ_VERSION_DATE@" >DATE
        echo "@GRAPHVIZ_COLLECTION@" >COLLECTION
 #      find $(distdir) -name CVS -type d -prune -exec rm -rf {} \;
 #      rm -f ToPAS