Aw: Re: Fw: Re: git equivalent to pulling the most recent date from ChangeLog?

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

> Von: "Dima Kogan" <gn...@di...>
> > Bastian M�rkisch <bma...@we...> writes:
> >         @echo "#ifndef GNUPLOT_TIMEBASE_H_INCLUDED" >$@t
> >         @echo "#define GNUPLOT_TIMEBASE_H_INCLUDED" >>$@t
> > -       @head -1 $< | sed -e 's,\(^[0-9-]* \).*$$,const char gnuplot_date[] = "\1";,' >>$@t
> > +       @echo "const char gnuplot_date[] = \"`git log -1 --format=%ci | cut -b-11`\";" >>$@t
> >         @echo "#endif /* GNUPLOT_TIMEBASE_H_INCLUDED */" >> $@t
> >         @if cmp -s $@ $@t; then rm -f $@t; else mv $@t $@; fi
> 
> Presumably this will barf when building from a release tarball WITHOUT
> the git metadata (i.e. what the distros do), right? Or is timestamp.h
> not built in those cases?

At least it wouldn't need to be built.  It's only included by src/version.c for the development
version.  Instead, the date is hard-coded there.

  Bastian