Parker Moore <parkrmoore@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> the logical place to pull that information from would be ../../GIT-VERSION-FILE, > > I agree. It would make more sense to build this to a specific version > or git revision rather > than a time. Perhaps that would be a different patch? It would definitely be a separate (and optional) patch and must come after "do we use = in between or send var/val as two separate arguments?" patch. That was what I meant to say with "... would be version file, but the mechanism to embed it would be the same as today". >> So unless the "dynamic lookup in the Makefile" turns out to be too >> gross, we would want to keep the mechanism and just make it usable >> for versions before 1.5 and also after 1.7, I would guess. > > A dynamic lookup of the go version would look for go 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, > 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5.0. > These versions would be incompatible with the `X var=val` syntax. I am > not too familiar > with Makefile syntax for numerical comparison, but I believe this > would be fairly simple. $ go version go version go1.3.3 linux/amd64 is what I seem to be locally getting, so I'd imagine it would be something like this perhaps? git-remote-persistent-https: case $$(go version) in \ "go version go"1.[0-5].*) EQ=" " ;; *) EQ="=" ;; esac && \ go build -o git-remote-persistent-https \ -ldflags "-X main._BUILD_EMBED_LABEL$${EQ}$(BUILD_LABEL)" > Would you like me to whip up a patch for it? Surely, and thanks. -- 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