Peter Johansson <address@hidden> - Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:21:26 -0400
Hello Michel,
Michel Briand wrote:
Hi all,
I implemented a new idea for program's version.
In src/bin/Makefile.am:
internal_version.c: ${top_srcdir}/PROGRAM_VERSION
${top_srcdir}/vtempl.pl $(component) $(VERSION) < $(templ) > $@
training_SOURCES = training.c internal_version.c
The vtempl.pl Perl program takes a template as input and filter it to
produce the internal_version.c source file.
Each time the PROGRAM_VERSION file will be changed, the new source file
will be regenerated, then the build system will recompile it, and
relink the program.
The source file will be regenerated only if PROGRAM_VERSION is changed,
though. I would add the template file, the perl script `vtempl.pl', and
`Maskefile' in the list of dependencies.
I don't know what your perl script looks like or what it achieves, but I
could imagine you could achieve something similar with a simple sed
call. See chapter 4.8.2 in autoconf manual for an example
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Installation-Directory-Variables
Thereby you could avoid the requirement that users need perl to build
your package.
Yes. You're right ;). I join my perl script. But also a sed script to
replace it ;).
Also, what is the reason you don't want to use config.h?
Other source files in the project should not be affected by a change of
the VERSION.
A simple use case when you have you're projet in configuration
management.
a) You prepare the version 2.1 of the project (you have "2.1pre9" in the
file PROJECT_VERSION). You finish you're work (code, build, test, ...)
and commit.
b) The integration step comes in, and extract your 2.1pre9 source,
build it, and test it.... With numerous tools that will check static or
dynamic states of the program...
c) Integration step finishes well and we are ok to release. But we'll
keep the generated files (object, executable) in configuration. So we
don't want to rebuild the tree after all tests have passed. So we do
not want to change the PROGRAM_VERSION if we know that it'll change
config.h => rebuilt the tree...
The main point here is that we have tests that run a lot of time. And
that we can change the PROGRAM_VERSION according to the configuration
management or the release policy. It's not in the source dependency
field ;).
Anyway we want the program to be dependant of the version since it's
embedded. So I've a dependency to relink it.
Is my explanation enough clear/detailed ?