On 14.05.2009 09:27, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 14.05.2009 04:23, Peter Stuge wrote: > >> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >> >> >>> + @echo -n $(SVNVERSION) >flashrom-$(VERSION)/.svnversion >>> >>> >> That's pretty ugly. >> >> > > It's the only way I saw to preserve the svn revision in the tarball > (well except $Rev$ which would have been sprinkled over every file to > get a reasonable result) and have identical makefile functionality both > for exported trees and svn trees. > > The big problem I tried to address in this patch is that most > distributions patch out the part of the makefile which tries to retrieve > the svn revision because the tarball they ship has no .svn directories > any more. That way, we lose revision information for most distribution > packages. > > Any hints on how to fix this in a different way are appreciated. >
Ping? Can the patch be applied even though it is ugly? Should I explain more? Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
