Experiment with putting the F<.patch>level into patchlevel.h

(a sure way to accelerate any change to subversion)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@25374

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/cflags.SH b/cflags.SH
index 5a6a7065c7..6c26025379 100755
--- a/cflags.SH
+++ b/cflags.SH
@@ -165,6 +165,10 @@ Intel*) ;;
     ;;
 esac
 
+if test -f .patch; then
+  ccflags="-DPERL_PATCHNUM=`cat .patch` $ccflags"
+fi
+
     : Can we perhaps use $ansi2knr here
     echo "$cc -c -DPERL_CORE $ccflags $optimize $warn"
     eval "$also "'"$cc -DPERL_CORE -c $ccflags $optimize $warn"'
diff --git a/patchlevel.h b/patchlevel.h
index 86b87be4f4..5b118cf3af 100644
--- a/patchlevel.h
+++ b/patchlevel.h
@@ -114,13 +114,14 @@ hunk.
 
  */
 
-
-
+#ifndef PERL_PATCHNUM
+#define PERL_PATCHNUM 24148
+#endif
 
 #if !defined(PERL_PATCHLEVEL_H_IMPLICIT) && !defined(LOCAL_PATCH_COUNT)
 static const char * const local_patches[] = {
 	NULL
-	,"DEVEL24148"
+	,"DEVEL" STRINGIFY(PERL_PATCHNUM)
 	,NULL
 };