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Re: Add revision number to gcc version?
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:04:46PM -0800, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Jim Blandy wrote:
> >On 12/19/05, Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com> wrote:
> >>But it doesn't do what people really want it to by design. :-(
> >
> >And that would be?
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#version-value-in-source
>
> I would like something, that substitutes automatically, works on svn
> co and svn up and can be used to obtain the exact sources I was
> playing with, given say a hard coded url and branch name. I can
> promise to only co or up the whole tree and to not have any
> modifications in the tree. Ideally, I'd like this to be stable, so
> that the number doesn't increment if there are no actual changes in
> my tree, though, this last point isn't critical.
I don't see how the current svn supports updating a single file with
the current revision number for each checkin.
H.J.