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[PATCH 1/3] Move git_version_string to help.c before diff changes

From
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date
Feb 10, 2012, 16:39 UTC
Message-ID
<1328891972-23695-2-git-send-email-zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
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git_version_string lives in git.c. When diff.c starts to use functions from help.c, which in turn use git_version_string, linking against libgit.a will fail. This is because git_version_string is physically located in git.o, and this object file is not part of libgit.a. One option would be to add git.o to libgit.a, but git.o is biggish. The second, better option is to move git_version_string to somewhere where it'll become part of libgit.a. This variable is only used in a couple of places, help.c being one of them, so it let's move git_version_string from git.c to help.c. The git binary is linked with help.o, so it is not affected by this move.

Without this change the next commit would fail with: $ gcc -g -O0 -I. -DUSE_LIBPCRE -DHAVE_PATHS_H -DHAVE_DEV_TTY -DSHA1_HEADER='<openssl/sha.h>' -DNO_STRLCPY -DNO_MKSTEMPS -o git-daemon daemon.o libgit.a xdiff/lib.a -lpcre -lz -lcrypto -lpthread libgit.a(help.o): In function `cmd_version': /home/zbyszek/git/git/help.c:435: undefined reference to `git_version_string'

Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
---
 Makefile |    5 +++--
 git.c    |    2 --
 help.c   |    2 ++
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4817157..ccafb95 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1890,7 +1890,7 @@ strip: $(PROGRAMS) git$X
 	$(STRIP) $(STRIP_OPTS) $(PROGRAMS) git$X
 
 git.o: common-cmds.h
-git.sp git.s git.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = -DGIT_VERSION='"$(GIT_VERSION)"' \
+git.sp git.s git.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \
 	'-DGIT_HTML_PATH="$(htmldir_SQ)"' \
 	'-DGIT_MAN_PATH="$(mandir_SQ)"' \
 	'-DGIT_INFO_PATH="$(infodir_SQ)"'
@@ -1899,7 +1899,8 @@ git$X: git.o GIT-LDFLAGS $(BUILTIN_OBJS) $(GITLIBS)
 	$(QUIET_LINK)$(CC) $(ALL_CFLAGS) -o $@ git.o \
 		$(BUILTIN_OBJS) $(ALL_LDFLAGS) $(LIBS)
 
-help.sp help.o: common-cmds.h
+help.o: common-cmds.h
+help.sp help.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = -DGIT_VERSION='"$(GIT_VERSION)"'
 
 builtin/help.sp builtin/help.o: common-cmds.h
 builtin/help.sp builtin/help.s builtin/help.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 3805616..a24a0fd 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -256,8 +256,6 @@ static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-const char git_version_string[] = GIT_VERSION;
-
 #define RUN_SETUP		(1<<0)
 #define RUN_SETUP_GENTLY	(1<<1)
 #define USE_PAGER		(1<<2)
diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index cbbe966..bc15066 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -409,6 +409,8 @@ const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
 	exit(1);
 }
 
+const char git_version_string[] = GIT_VERSION;
+
 int cmd_version(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
 	printf("git version %s\n", git_version_string);
-- 
1.7.9.263.g4be11.dirty
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  1. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekFeb 9, 2012
  2. 1/4 Move git_version_string to help.c in preparation for diff changesZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 9, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2012
  4. 2/4 help.c: make term_columns() cached and export itZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 9, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2012
  6. 3/4 diff --stat: use the real terminal widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 9, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2012
  8. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 10, 2012
  9. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekFeb 10, 2012
  10. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 10, 2012
  11. 0/3 diff --stat: use the real terminal widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 10, 2012
  12. 1/3 Move git_version_string to help.c before diff changesZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 10, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2012
  14. 2/3 help.c: make term_columns() cached and export itZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 10, 2012
  15. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 11, 2012
  16. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekFeb 11, 2012
  17. Junio C HamanoFeb 12, 2012
  18. 1/2 Save terminal width before setting up pager and export term_columns()Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 12, 2012
  19. Junio C HamanoFeb 13, 2012
  20. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 14, 2012
  21. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekFeb 14, 2012
  22. 2/2 Rename lineno_width to decimal_width and export itZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 12, 2012
  23. Junio C HamanoFeb 13, 2012
  24. make lineno_width() from blame reusable for othersZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 14, 2012
  25. 3/3 diff --stat: use the real terminal widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 10, 2012
  26. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2012
  27. diff --stat: use the full terminal widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 12, 2012
  28. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2012
  29. 1/3 diff --stat: use the full terminal widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 14, 2012
  30. 2/3 diff --stat: better alignment for binary filesZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 14, 2012
  31. 3/3 Update diff --stat output in tests and tutorialZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 14, 2012
  32. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2012
  33. 1/3 diff --stat: tests for long filenames and big change countsZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 15, 2012
  34. 2/3 diff --stat: use the full terminal widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 15, 2012
  35. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2012
  36. 3/3 diff --stat: use less columns for change countsZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 15, 2012
  37. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 15, 2012
  38. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2012
  39. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2012
  40. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekFeb 16, 2012
  41. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2012
  42. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2012
  43. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2012
  44. Johannes SixtFeb 15, 2012
  45. 4/4 diff --stat: use most of the space for file namesZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 9, 2012
  46. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2012

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