On 11/11/12 10:41 AM, ale rimoldi wrote: > hi john, > >> I've been building Scribus from the high watermark of SVN (1.5) and >> need to determine what version my currently running edition is from. >> Using Help-About does not provide me the Subversion version and gives >> me a date of "1 August 2012" when my system notes I built it 18:33:17 >> 09/10/12 PDT. >> >> Is the Subversion version which Scribus is built from ascertainable >> from a running instance? If not, is there a file is the staged tree >> that might reflect it? I built Scribus using Gentoo's portage >> facility which basically pulls whatever is HEAD at the time I >> update. In this case, I think I last successfully built on 18:33:17 >> 09/10/12 PDT. I'm going to go look at the Subversion repository (I >> hope there is a websvn (http://websvn.tigris.org/) interface) and >> determine what version was HEAD around that time. >> >> It seems to me having a Subversion version and date included in the >> About box might be helpful. > this has been discussed a few times already, but (afaik) nobody brought > a usable solution. > > another useful feature, would be to add the git branch, for the ones > who compile from gif. > > the main question is: how can we hack the cmake scripts to > automatically add such information? > i've done a short google search.
here are some links worth to be considered... - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/657850/cmake-how-to-use-bash-command-in -cmakelists-txt - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9639449/cmake-how-to-pass-preprocessor-macros - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7900661/how-to-read-a-cmake-variable-in-c-source-code if i have some time i will have a look at them... ciao a.l.e
