FYI: Versioning support for IcedTea

[Christian Thalinger]

On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 02:47 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> This patch adds support for reporting the IcedTea
> version and Mercurial revision from the resulting build:
> 
> $ ~/builder/icedtea/openjdk/build/linux-amd64/bin/java -version
> java version "1.7.0_0"
> IcedTea 1.8-pre-r1223 Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_0-b35)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.7.0_0-b35, mixed mode)

That is a very cool patch.  I'll add something similar to CACAO.

> diff -r 15c4a75ee541 Makefile.am
> --- a/Makefile.am       Sat Sep 13 01:08:32 2008 +0100
> +++ b/Makefile.am       Sat Sep 13 02:43:32 2008 +0100
> @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@
>  
>  # Mercurial snapshot.
>  snapshot: dist
> -       mv $(DIST_ARCHIVES) $(distdir)-`hg tip --template '{node}'`.tar.gz
> +       mv $(DIST_ARCHIVES) $(distdir)-`$(HG) tip --template '{node}'`.tar.gz

> +       if [ -e $(abs_top_srcdir)/.hg ]; then \
> +         revision="-r`(cd $(srcdir); $(HG) tip|grep changeset|cut -d':' -f2|sed -r 's#\W+##')`" ; \
> +       fi ; \
> +       icedtea_version="$(PACKAGE_VERSION)$${revision}" ; \
> +       sed -i "s#IcedTea#IcedTea $${icedtea_version}#" openjdk/jdk/make/common/shared/Defs.gmk

I wonder, as you're using tip --template already above, why not doing
this instead of the grep-cut-sed magic:

hg tip --template '{rev}'

- twisti