If the git version number consists of less than three period separated numbers, then the windows resource file compilation issues a syntax error: $ touch git.rc $ make V=1 git.res GIT_VERSION = 1.9.rc0 windres -O coff \ -DMAJOR=1 -DMINOR=9 -DPATCH=rc0 \ -DGIT_VERSION="\\\"1.9.rc0\\\"" git.rc -o git.res C:\msysgit\msysgit\mingw\bin\windres.exe: git.rc:2: syntax error make: *** [git.res] Error 1 $ [Note that -DPATCH=rc0] In order to fix the syntax error, we replace any rcX with zero and include some additional 'zero' padding to the version number list. Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Hi Junio, This patch is marked RFC because, as I was just about to send this email, I realized it wouldn't always work: $ touch git.rc $ make V=1 GIT_VERSION=1.9.dirty git.res windres -O coff \ -DMAJOR=1 -DMINOR=9 -DPATCH=dirty \ -DGIT_VERSION="\\\"1.9.dirty\\\"" git.rc -o git.res C:\msysgit\msysgit\mingw\bin\windres.exe: git.rc:2: syntax error make: *** [git.res] Error 1 $ :-D I suspect it would be easier to change GIT-VERSION-GEN to also set, say, GIT_VERSION_MAJOR, GIT_VERSION_MINOR and GIT_VERSION_PATCH ... ATB, Ramsay Jones Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index b4af1e2..308baaa 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1773,7 +1773,7 @@ $(SCRIPT_LIB) : % : %.sh GIT-SCRIPT-DEFINES git.res: git.rc GIT-VERSION-FILE $(QUIET_RC)$(RC) \ - $(join -DMAJOR= -DMINOR= -DPATCH=, $(wordlist 1,3,$(subst -, ,$(subst ., ,$(GIT_VERSION))))) \ + $(join -DMAJOR= -DMINOR= -DPATCH=, $(wordlist 1,3,$(patsubst rc%,0,$(subst -, ,$(subst ., ,$(GIT_VERSION))) 0 0))) \ -DGIT_VERSION="\\\"$(GIT_VERSION)\\\"" $< -o $@ ifndef NO_PERL -- 1.8.5 -- 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