[Vm-dev] Re: About sqSCCVersion.h

[Guido Chari]

Thanks for this info...

In Unix its needs execution permissions first...

Guido

2011/9/9 Javier Pimás <elpochodelagente at gmail.com>

>
> just to document... the script to execute is in
> /path/to/vmsource/codegen-scripts/extract-commit-info.sh, and as its comment
> says, should be run from build dir, like this:
>
> build$ ../codegen-scripts/extract-commit-info.sh
>
> after that, everything should work.
>
> cheers,
> Javier.
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> After merging codebase from svn it seems to working well:
>>
>> Smalltalk getSystemAttribute: 1009
>> 'git at gitorious.org:cogvm/blessed.git Commit:
>> b0df6dc6902a9eb05de02782a77712d855d0422e Date: Wed Jul 20 16:22:16
>> 2011 +0200 By: Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com>'
>>
>>
>> On 21 July 2011 18:13, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > i was looking how to make same trick for git, to embed the revision
>> > information into the source and found no easy solution.
>> >
>> > Using gitattributes is powerful, but too tedious for me to set it up
>> > fast and too much info for doing simple things. (You may look
>> > http://progit.org/book/ch7-2.html)
>> >
>> > So, to make it fast, i will use shell script to generate output.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, it makes little sense to use #define GIT 1 (in
>> sqSCCVersion.h)
>> > because its easier to just include generated file:
>> >
>> > #include "vmVersionInfo.h"  // defines REVISION_STRING
>> >
>> >
>> > static char *sourceVersionString()
>> > {
>> >        return REVISION_STRING;
>> > }
>> >
>> > Where vmVersionInfo.h contents is generated dynamically by shell script.
>> >
>> > To extract an URL a following command does it well:
>> >
>> > git config --get remote.origin.url
>> >
>> > Which shows:
>> > git at gitorious.org:cogvm/blessed.git
>> >
>> > To extract commit info, i using:
>> >
>> > git show HEAD --pretty="Commit: %H Date: %cd By: %cn <%cE>"
>> >
>> > Which shows:
>> > b0df6dc6902a9eb05de02782a77712d855d0422e Date: Wed Jul 20 16:22:16
>> > 2011 +0200 By: Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com>
>> >
>> > So, i will create a script which will generate a header file with
>> > these two lines concatenated, and then just include it into modified
>> > sqSCCVersion.h
>> >
>> > The problem is that i cannot put invocation of this script it into
>> > cmake config files, because then it will work only if you check out
>> > source from git , but not for tarballs.
>> > So, to generate the version info file this command will run separately
>> > on server.
>> >
>> > The output of sourceVersionString() function will be something like
>> that:
>> >
>> > git at gitorious.org:cogvm/blessed.git Commit:
>> > b0df6dc6902a9eb05de02782a77712d855d0422e Date: Wed Jul 20 16:22:16
>> > 2011 +0200 By: Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com>
>> >
>> > If you have better suggestions how this string should look like
>> > (format, fields) i am here to listen. :)
>> >
>> > --
>> > Best regards,
>> > Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Lic. Javier Pimás
> Ciudad de Buenos Aires
>
>
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