Re: Including git-describe info as version strings for generic "-v" output

From: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2012, 11:16 UTC
Message-ID: <CANgJU+XUg8=WMjHLNhe9kxgoGna6m4+YyduBRNGurAke12vLgg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAG_NL2So7cf6o+en9ktHGr94Eu5WJ9giWq6OmSxK+ZL4RdtaGA@mail.gmail.com>

On 21 January 2012 20:09, Harry portobello <harryportobello@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi all,
>
> I hope the subject makes sense -- I'll explain what I'm trying to do.
>
> I'm wondering what the best approaches are to being able to include
> output from git-describe [1] for generic version strings in projects
> managed by Git? This would have to work from within an
> autotools-managed project.
>
> At the moment, I've managed to hook the output from git-describe in to
> a few .m4 files, which works only at ./configure time -- but of
> course, with this being Git, I'd ideally like the same mechanism to
> work in a situation where someone does:
>
> $ git pull && make
>
> It's knowing how to plumb this in to the Makefile.am part I'm hazy over.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.

FWIW Perl does something like this. Have a look at the Perl makefiles for an example.

Yves

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