| -----Original Message-----
| From: Joerg Mayer
|
| OK, take 2
Hi Joerg,
I very much like your proposal, so I gave it a try!
I verified the code, and there are some concerns:
1. You need to run the perl script with "$PERL filename.pl"
This also requires that the check for perl must happen
prior to running "$PERL filename.pl".
2. I like to know which was the last released version from
which the cvs version is derived.
3. Most of the time I do a "cvs -z 3 update -P -d" followed
with a mere "make". The version as computed by ./configure
and stored in config.h will be stale.
4. You cannot build an official release from CVS as there will
always be a CVS directory.
If we assume that whenever a new version is released, the
configure script is updated, then we can keep the base version
in the configure script as is.
In order to compute a valid "CVS version" identifier, we need
to define it in the Makefiles so every run of make computes an
up-to-date version identifier. So that would be the place to
run the cvsdate.pl script. As a result, $PERL is already
defined for us by ./configure, so the order of the autoconf
macros is no longer an issue :)
Maybe we can use a "-DCVS_VERSION=xxxxxx" compiler flag in
the Makefiles for the CVS version as it is conditionally
defined (only if using CVS)?
This still leaves issue 4 open.
Anyway, I'd like to have some comments on this from the other
people on the list :)
Regards,
Olivier
