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author | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2008-04-03 16:31:30 -0600 |
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committer | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2008-04-03 16:53:45 -0600 |
commit | 1a98f86fef7e1a212f453cfb09439f95f7606099 (patch) | |
tree | 951a690627c9926aac6715559a560371769ef106 /build-aux/git-version-gen | |
parent | 95002d80002acb26000b3c20a2e1a3db929628ae (diff) | |
download | gnulib-1a98f86fef7e1a212f453cfb09439f95f7606099.tar.gz |
Ensure sane .version contents.
* top/GNUmakefile (_dummy): Also delete .version when rebuilding
version string.
* build-aux/git-version-gen: Improve documentation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'build-aux/git-version-gen')
-rwxr-xr-x | build-aux/git-version-gen | 46 |
1 files changed, 44 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/build-aux/git-version-gen b/build-aux/git-version-gen index 5f819ba721..7aa025365d 100755 --- a/build-aux/git-version-gen +++ b/build-aux/git-version-gen @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ #!/bin/sh # Print a version string. -scriptversion=2008-03-02.16 +scriptversion=2008-04-03.22 -# Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation +# Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Free Software Foundation # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by @@ -26,6 +26,48 @@ scriptversion=2008-03-02.16 # - from a non-git-repo directory containing a .tarball-version file, which # presumes this script is invoked like "./git-version-gen .tarball-version". +# In order to use intra-version strings in your project, you will need two +# separate generated version string files: +# +# .tarball-version - present only in a distribution tarball, and not in +# a checked-out repository. Created with contents that were learned at +# the last time autoconf was run, and used by git-version-gen. Must not +# be present in either $(srcdir) or $(builddir) for git-version-gen to +# give accurate answers during normal development with a checked out tree, +# but must be present in a tarball when there is no version control system. +# Therefore, it cannot be used in any dependencies. GNUmakefile has +# hooks to force a reconfigure at distribution time to get the value +# correct, without penalizing normal development with extra reconfigures. +# +# .version - present in a checked-out repository and in a distribution +# tarball. Usable in dependencies, particularly for files that don't +# want to depend on config.h but do want to track version changes. +# Delete this file prior to any autoconf run where you want to rebuild +# files to pick up a version string change; and leave it stale to +# minimize rebuild time after unrelated changes to configure sources. +# +# It is probably wise to add these two files to .gitignore, so that you +# don't accidentally commit either generated file. +# +# Use the following line in your configure.ac, so that $(VERSION) will +# automatically be up-to-date each time configure is run (and note that +# since configure.ac no longer includes a version string, Makefile rules +# should not depend on configure.ac for version updates). +# +# AC_INIT([GNU project], +# m4_esyscmd([build-aux/git-version-gen .tarball-version]), +# [bug-project@example]) +# +# Then use the following lines in your Makefile.am, so that .version +# will be present for dependencies, and so that .tarball-version will +# exist in distribution tarballs. +# +# BUILT_SOURCES = $(top_srcdir)/.version +# $(top_srcdir)/.version: +# echo $(VERSION) > $@-t && mv $@-t $@ +# dist-hook: +# echo $(VERSION) > $(distdir)/.tarball-version + case $# in 1) ;; *) echo 1>&2 "Usage: $0 \$srcdir/.tarball-version"; exit 1;; |