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Re: [Enigma-devel] Re: SVN revision number


From: Till Harbaum / Lists
Subject: Re: [Enigma-devel] Re: SVN revision number
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:03:16 +0100
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Hi,

if you don't like the fact that there's some source file being auto generated 
you can of course always pass the output of svnversion directly into the 
compiler. I don't even want you to parse anything, so basically something not 
much more complex than "-D`svnversion`  would do the trick.

Till

Am Donnerstag 28 Februar 2008 schrieb Daniel Heck:
> Ronald Lamprecht wrote:
> > svnversion is the right tool.
> >
> > But it does not really help, as we have a classical "hen and egg"
> > problem:
> >
> > You need to commit your changes and you need to update to get correct
> > svnversion output. Now you need to start make again to generate the
> > source which results in a modified source which need to be commited,...
> >
>  > Furtheron this modified piece of source would be a steady source of
>  > merge errors.
>
> Why would you want to commit the file containing the version number
> anyway? That is clearly the wrong approach, for all the reasons you
> list.  I would simply run svnversion every single time make is invoked
> and link the resulting version string into the program.
>
> - Daniel
>
>
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