Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:37:25PM -0700, Alexander Novick wrote: >> We usually use /usr/sbin/modinfo to determine versions for specific modules. >> With removal of user visible SCCS keywords how can we get module version >> if the version is not implanted in th binary? > > Without keywords, you can do: > > char version[] = VERSION; > > cc -DVERSION="\"`hg id -i`\"" foo.c >
We already bake VERSION into the resulting objects (where VERSION is set by the build, in an assumed-sensible fashion), it's both in the .comment section, and stored with the CTF information (which where ::showrev and similar retrieve it from). -- Rich
