On 21 January 2012 20:09, Harry portobello <harryportobello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I hope the subject makes sense -- I'll explain what I'm trying to do. > > I'm wondering what the best approaches are to being able to include > output from git-describe [1] for generic version strings in projects > managed by Git? This would have to work from within an > autotools-managed project. > > At the moment, I've managed to hook the output from git-describe in to > a few .m4 files, which works only at ./configure time -- but of > course, with this being Git, I'd ideally like the same mechanism to > work in a situation where someone does: > > $ git pull && make > > It's knowing how to plumb this in to the Makefile.am part I'm hazy over. > > Any help would be much appreciated. FWIW Perl does something like this. Have a look at the Perl makefiles for an example. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html