Re: Add revision number to gcc version?

[David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>]

H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:00:10PM -0800, David Daney wrote:
>
> > H. J. Lu wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 02:05:47PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:52:49PM -0800, Mike Stump wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On Nov 14, 2005, at 9:14 AM, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Can we change it to something like
> > > > > >
> > > > > > gcc (GCC) 4.1.0 20051113 (revision 106863) (experimental)
> > > > >
> > > > > Doesn't work, unless you also have the branch name.  Further, the  
> > > > > substitutions that svn can do, doesn't allow for the above, and they  
> > > > > don't want to `fix' svn to do it (see the FAQ).  (I think I'd like it  
> > > > > too.)
> > > I am enclosing 2 patches:
> > >
> > > 1. contrib/gcc_update creates gcc/REVISION with branch name and
> > > revision number.
> > > 2. If gcc/REVISION exists, it will be used in gcc/version.c.
> > >
> > > With those 2 patches, I got
> > >
> > > [hjl@gnu-13 gcc]$ ./xgcc --version
> > > xgcc (GCC) 4.1.0 (gcc-4_1-branch revision 108596) 20051215 (prerelease)
> >
> > I like this, but what if you also did an svn status to see if there were 
> > any modifications WRT the branch/revision and then add either 'clean' or 
> > 'modified' to the information.
> >
> > So you would get (gcc-4_1-branch revision 108596 modified) or 
> > (gcc-4_1-branch revision 108596 clean)
>
>
> Like this?

It is plausible that it does what I had in mind.  I have not tested it 
though.

I say test it and post it to gcc-patches@

David Daney.