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Re: Dev Build System: Include Revision Number

From: Sigfred Håversen <bsdlist_at_mumak.com>
Date: 2006-07-17 23:47:41 CEST

The hardware requirements for running/using/building
Subversion are quite high, and this is well known.
Relinking does not take that much time, relatively
speaking, so I still don't understand your very strong
objection.

/Sigfred

Michael Brouwer wrote:
> Why not only relink if the output of svnversion changes?
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 7/17/06, *Sigfred Håversen* <bsdlist@mumak.com
> <mailto:bsdlist@mumak.com>> wrote:
>
> Max Bowsher wrote:
> > Christopher Ness wrote:
> >
> >>Does anyone out there have a patch to update the build system so
> that it
> >>includes the revision number the source was built from in
> >>`/subversion/include/svn_version.h`
> >>
> >> SVN_VER_TAG
> >> SVN_VER_NUMTAG
> >>
> >>Instead of the non-descriptive development strings?
> >>
> >>I'd like to know what revision I'm running without having to find the
> >>working copy I built the source from.
> >>
> >>Please note I'm not suggesting removing the dev strings, I feel
> it is
> >>still important to know a development version of the code is
> used, but I'd
> >>also like to know the revision.
> >
> >
> > It's deliberately not done to avoid needing to run 'svnversion', and
>
> That is understandable :-) Very useful feature, but not for every "make"
> as you point out.
>
> > relink everything from libsvn_subr on upwards, on *every*
> invocation of
> > 'make'.
> > Ideas welcome, but clearly relinking the entire libsvn_foo
> library stack
> > on every 'make' is unacceptable.
>
> This one I don't understand.
>
> /Sigfred
>
>
> /Sigfred
>
>
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