Re: [PATCH/RFC] Makefile: Fix compilation of windows resource file

> [Cc Pat, who added git.rc]
>
> Am 1/22/2014 0:48, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>> Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> writes:
>> 
>>>> Note that I am merely guessing that "short-digit" version numbers
>>>> are acceptable by now after seeing
>>>>
>>>>     https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-07/msg00199.html
>>>
>>> Ah, nice find!
>>>
>>> I will test your patch (below) and let you know soon, but it looks
>>> good to me. (I can't test it tonight, unfortunately.)
>> 
>> One thing to note is that I don't know why the existing code dropped
>> the fourth digit from the maintenance series.
>
> I don't know either. But it does not really matter. When there are 4
> digits in the FILEVERSION and PRODUCTVERSION statements, then the user
> does not see them as-are, but, for example, 1.8.1283 for
> FILEVERSION 1,8,5,3 (1283 = 5*256+3). Therefore, I think that there is
> no point in providing 4 numbers, and the patch below should be
> sufficient.

> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index b4af1e2..99b2b89 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1773,7 +1773,7 @@ $(SCRIPT_LIB) : % : %.sh GIT-SCRIPT-DEFINES
>  
>  git.res: git.rc GIT-VERSION-FILE
>  	$(QUIET_RC)$(RC) \
> -	  $(join -DMAJOR= -DMINOR= -DPATCH=, $(wordlist 1,3,$(subst -, ,$(subst ., ,$(GIT_VERSION))))) \
> +	  $(join -DMAJOR= -DMINOR=, $(wordlist 1,2,$(subst -, ,$(subst ., ,$(GIT_VERSION))))) \
>  	  -DGIT_VERSION="\\\"$(GIT_VERSION)\\\"" $< -o $@
>  
>  ifndef NO_PERL
> diff --git a/git.rc b/git.rc
> index bce6db9..33aafb7 100644
> --- a/git.rc
> +++ b/git.rc
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>  1 VERSIONINFO
> -FILEVERSION     MAJOR,MINOR,PATCH,0
> -PRODUCTVERSION  MAJOR,MINOR,PATCH,0
> +FILEVERSION     MAJOR,MINOR,0,0
> +PRODUCTVERSION  MAJOR,MINOR,0,0
>  BEGIN
>    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
>    BEGIN