[Gambas-user] will manually writing trunk_version.h break anything?

[Tobias Boege]

On Fri, 05 Feb 2021, Bruce Steers wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> in my gambas simple upgrade utility i have found that the trunk_version.h
> file does not get created as the zip source downloads do not contain a .git
> folder with any info in it so the makefile cannot get the info to make the
> trunk_version.h file.
> 
> so upon downloading the source zip my app now also reads the gitlab commit
> page and extracts the latest commit hash string and manually creates the
> trunk_version.h filef before compile.
> 
> So it looks like it would normally...
> 
> 
> *#define TRUNK_VERSION "93ef59197 (master)"#define TRUNK_VERSION_GIT 1*
> 
> I just wish to know if this file is used for anything else and if i am
> likely to break anything doing this?
> It seems to work, the compiled files get the hash and branch name added to
> their version string as would normally.
> Just playing it safe.
> 

It is only used in --version output of gb{c,a,i,x}.

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