Ariel, Thanks. That's a great source for a build number. That will help QA reporting immensely.
I think the SVN number advances ASF-wide, so although our code base might not have changed, it still differentiates builds and it is a non-decreasing value. That should be good enough for now. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Ariel Constenla-Haile [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 13:21 To: [email protected] Subject: [CODE] Replace buildid by svn revision, and fix broken --with-build-version Hi there, the attached patches are an attempt to replace the build-id by the subversion revision; and fix --with-build-version that didn't work. The svn revision is set in configure (I guess this could have been done somewhere in the perl installer code). It supports both subversion and git-svn repositories. In case of plane sources without repo, the build-id is set to 0. (Tested only with git-svn). [ ... ]
