Re: Burning svn revision into binaries

Justin Verity wrote:
> I am trying to put the SVN revision # in my binaries
>
> In my Makefile I do this:
>
> SVNDEF := -D'SVN_REV="$(shell svnversion -n .)"'
> CFLAGS = @CFLAGS@ -pipe $(SVNDEF)
>
> And in my user code I do this:
>
> cout << "SVN Revision is " << SVN_REV << endl;
>
> But the output I get is:
>
> "SVN Revision is exported"
>
> Can anyone help?

I think you put your backticks in the wrong place, causing the shell to
see "SVN_REV=####" which results in it setting that variable and
printing "exported". Try:

SVNDEF := -DSVN_REV='svnversion -n .'

Or it might have been:

SVNDEF := -DSVN_REV=$(shell svnversion -n .)

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Received on Tue Feb 27 21:27:04 2007