[mythtv-commits] Ticket #885: Add source revision number to version information

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#885: Add source revision number to version information
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 Reporter:  willu.mailingLists at cse.unsw.edu.au  |       Owner:  ijr 
     Type:  patch                               |      Status:  new 
 Priority:  minor                               |   Milestone:  0.19
Component:  mythtv                              |     Version:      
 Severity:  low                                 |  
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 The attached patch adds the current subversion revision to the data
 printed out on startup for mythfrontend and mythbackend.

 A call to svnversion is added to the configure script.  Configure
 generates a file, libs/libmyth/vers.cpp, which adds a new global string in
 libmyth containing the revision information of the source.  If there are
 no .svn directories then you get a default string with the release number.

 I didn't use a header file as I didn't want too much to have to be
 recompiled every time the revision changes (which is frequently to say the
 least).  As written, one file will have to be recompiled, libraries and
 programs will only need to be re-linked.

 As well as the attached patch, you probably also want to add
 libs/libmyth/vers.cpp to the svn:ignores property of libs/libmyth/.

 This patch might be changed by putting the generation of vers.cpp into the
 Makefile rather than having it happen at compile time.  This would require
 qmake wizardry, and I didn't think it was worth it.

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