Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:19:06 +0000
Mark Morgan Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
This can be a bit tricky, since it needs something like tr on all
platforms and Lazarus has problems with \ in the
ExecuteBefore...Command Value setting.
What problems?
The original command I used was
/bin/sh -c "echo -n \'`svnversion -n `\' >project_svnrevision.inc"
but at some point (if my memory is correct) Lazarus started trying to
convert \ to / even on unix (I'm pretty sure we discussed it at the
time). Thanks to somebody on CIX, I'm now using
/bin/sh -c "echo -n C`svnversion -n`C |tr A-G %-+ >project_svnrevision.inc"
I don't think that counts as "doing all the work for the OP" since he's
still got to figure out why it works :-)
I remember that under certain conditions I've had problems compiling
Lazarus where the FPC command to filter the SVN version hasn't yet been
built (I forget the detail, but this was probably when trying to get it
running on Solaris/SPARC). It does occur to me that a generic program to
munge an svn or git version string into a quoted literal would be a good
candidate for InstantFPC.
Was reported as http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=18068&history=1
Fix sorted out (back)slashes in paths, but not other cases in the
command line (which, in fairness, are probably non-portable). I see that
you (Mattias) suggested InstantFPC at the time, seems like an excellent
idea since a specialist program could do its job without needing any
parameters.
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