On 12/28/2012 03:13 PM, Peter Rosin wrote:
> When building in a git checkout, but from a system lacking git, it
> is useful to fall back to the version determined when the git
> checkout was last used from a system sporting git.
>
> * build-aux/git-version-gen: Add support for the new option --fallback,
> which comes into play when there is no $tarball_version_file and
> git is not working.
You didn't really document how to wire up makefiles to properly inject a
decent --fallback option into the script; but I'm at least satisfied
that this patch in isolation doesn't break existing packages that don't
use the --falback option, while leaving the door open for packages that
DO want to support the use of --fallback.
As I understand it, the idea is that you have a shared folder that can
be accessed via multiple machines; on some machines, you have git, and
can therefore do a git checkout that populates Makefile with the right
information for use as a fallback. On other machines you lack git but
can see the .git directory in the shared directory; since it is still a
development build and you never ran 'make dist', you still want to have
the effect of a devel checkout, rather than building from a tarball, and
if all that git was needed for can be injected from the machine that has
git installed, then the other machine can benefit from the --falback.
I just now noticed v5, so I'll check that out before pushing anything.
I will point out that your script introduces yet another instance of a
non-portable construct:
test -z "$fallback"
Per the Autoconf manual:
Posix also says that `test ! "STRING"', `test -n "STRING"' and
`test -z "STRING"' work with any string, but many shells (such as
Solaris, AIX 3.2, UNICOS 10.0.0.6, Digital Unix 4, etc.) get
confused if STRING looks like an operator:
$ test -n =
test: argument expected
$ test ! -n
test: argument expected
$ test -z ")"; echo $?
0
However, this idiom is already in use elsewhere in git-version-gen, so
it should be fixed in an independent patch.
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