[Vm-dev] Won't compile if not run extract-commit-info.sh

[Igor Stasenko]

On 7 December 2011 23:50, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 7 December 2011 20:38, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Hi (Igor?). Nowadays, if you don't execute (by hand) ./codegen-scripts/extract-commit-info.sh  then the VM will simply don't compile.
>> > So...can we somehow attach this to the makefiles or cmake so that it automatically executes it?
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>> well, it should be present in sources, which you download as tarball
>> archive from jenkins server.
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> Yes, but I am building from VMMAker ;)
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>> the problem is that to extract a commit info, you need to have own git
>> repository clone, otherwise it won't work, obviously.
>> that's why for sources , which downloaded from tarball, this file is
>> already present.
>> putting it into cmake config, will mean that you can build VM only by
>> having git repo clone, and impossible to build without it.
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> Ok, BUT, isn't all this thing about CMakeVMMaker expected to work with the Git version?
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it is expected to work with sources from git. but not necessary you
need to have a full clone of git repository.
anyways i think it doesn't makes much difference today :)

> Anyway, why it cannot just be optional? For example:
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> CogMTCocoaIOSConfig new
>        generateForDebug;
>        extractCommitInfo;
>        generateSources; generate.
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good idea. :)

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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.