On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Philipp Gesang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > with revision 5624, the ``luatex_svn`` field vanished, as did the > revision info in the string output by ``--version``. I’d like to > have it back. > > On my setup I’m frequently switching the Luatex binaries—debug > ones, TL ones, new ones and ancient ones—and I’ve been using the > SVN version as a reference to keep them all apart. Without it > I’ll probably have to resort to hashing the binaries since the > “official” build in TeX Live now reports the same version string > as the SVN builds :/ (And perhaps add a “-dirty” suffix if the > source was modified locally.) > > If it’s unacceptable for the release builds, could we at least > have a compile-time option? > > Thanks, > Philipp > > after texlive we will discuss of a buildid of some kind. -- luigi
