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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] build: write VERSION file containing $(VERSION) string\r
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+On Sun, Feb 09 2014, "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> wrote:\r
+\r
+> On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 12:58:33AM +0200, Tomi Ollila wrote:\r
+>> -VERSION:=3D$(shell git describe --match '[0-9.]*'|sed -e s/_/~/ -e s/-/=\r
++/ -e s/-/~/)\r
+>> +# Also write VERSION file in case its contents differ from $(VERSION)\r
+>> +VERSION:=3D$(shell\\r
+>> + gv=3D`git describe --match '[0-9.]*'|sed -e s/_/~/ -e s/-/+/ -e s/-/~/=\r
+`;\\r
+>\r
+> Ew, backticks ;). What about handling more of the logic in Make:\r
+>\r
+> VERSION :=3D $(shell git describe =E2=80=A6)\r
+> FILE_VERSION :=3D $(shell test -f VERSION || touch VERSION; cat VERSION)\r
+> ifneq ($(FILE_VERSION), $(VERSION))\r
+> $(shell echo "$(VERSION)" > VERSION)\r
+> endif\r
+\r
+Sure makes that clearer...\r
+\r
+>\r
+>> +# Depend (also) on 'version' file. In case of ifeq ($(IS_GIT),yes)\r
+>> +# this file may already have been updated.\r
+>> +VERSION: version\r
+>> + echo $(VERSION) > $@\r
+>\r
+> Do we care about case-insensitive filesystems where VERSION will\r
+> collide with version?\r
+\r
+Very good point! We do not wan't to have a chance to overwrite version\r
+... I have to look a new filename for that...\r
+\r
+>\r
+>> -CLEAN :=3D $(CLEAN) notmuch notmuch-shared $(notmuch_client_modules) no=\r
+tmuch.elc\r
+>> +CLEAN :=3D $(CLEAN) VERSION notmuch notmuch-shared $(notmuch_client_mod=\r
+ules)\r
+>\r
+> Where did notmuch.elc go?\r
+\r
+To emacs/notmuch.elc years ago.\r
+\r
+>\r
+> Cheers,\r
+> Trevor\r
+\r
+Thanks for review.\r
+\r
+Tomi\r