On 02/07/14 09:04, Rick McGuire wrote:
> We like to include the SVN revision number in our build artifacts to
> help keep track of what version people are working with. I found the
> following code on the mailing lists which appears to work fine:
>
> # Get the SVN revision number of an svn command line client is
> # available. This version will run at build time rather than only
> # at configuration generation time.
> FIND_PROGRAM(SVN_EXECUTABLE svn
> DOC "subversion command line client")
>
> # only do this if we have an svn client.
> if (SVN_EXECUTABLE)
> MACRO(Subversion_GET_REVISION dir variable)
> EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND ${SVN_EXECUTABLE} info ${dir}
> OUTPUT_VARIABLE ${variable}
> OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
> STRING(REGEX REPLACE "^(.*\n)?Revision: ([^\n]+).*"
> "\\2" ${variable} "${${variable}}")
> ENDMACRO(Subversion_GET_REVISION)
>
> Subversion_GET_REVISION(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR} ORX_BLD_LVL)
> endif ()
>
> message(STATUS "SVN Revision Number is ${ORX_BLD_LVL}")
>
>
> Unfortunately, the first person not in the core team who building was running
> a Spanish language version of SVN, so the ORX_BLD_LEVEL variable ended up
> with the entire output of the svn info command because it could not find the
> string REVISION. This was not a good thing!
>
>
> Is there a better way to obtain the SVN revision number that does not suffer
> from this sort of problem?
>
>
> Rick
Hi Rick,
You should try the command svnversion'. That should give just the
revision number, and no extraction code will be necessary.
Michael
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