On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:14:19 +0000 Mark Morgan Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:19:06 +0000 > > Mark Morgan Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> [...] > >> This can be a bit tricky, since it needs something like tr on all > >> platforms and Lazarus has problems with \ in the ExecuteBefore...Command > >> Value setting. > > > > What problems? > > The original command I used was > > /bin/sh -c "echo -n \'`svnversion -n `\' >project_svnrevision.inc" > > but at some point (if my memory is correct) Lazarus started trying to > convert \ to / even on unix (I'm pretty sure we discussed it at the > time). The IDE converts \,/ in all paths when for example a project saved under Windows is opened under Linux. You can define OS dependent paths via the project macros. See project options / compiler options / IDE Macros / Conditionals. > Thanks to somebody on CIX, I'm now using > > /bin/sh -c "echo -n C`svnversion -n`C |tr A-G %-+ >project_svnrevision.inc" > > I don't think that counts as "doing all the work for the OP" since he's > still got to figure out why it works :-) > > I remember that under certain conditions I've had problems compiling > Lazarus where the FPC command to filter the SVN version hasn't yet been > built (I forget the detail, but this was probably when trying to get it > running on Solaris/SPARC). It does occur to me that a generic program to > munge an svn or git version string into a quoted literal would be a good > candidate for InstantFPC. Or maybe an IDE plugin. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
