Generate version header for zip exports as well

.VERSION

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+COMMIT: $Format:%H$
+REFS:   $Format:%D$
+DATE:   $Format:%ci$

.gitattributes

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+GNUmakefile export-ignore
+.VERSION export-subst

GNUmakefile

@@ -26,16 +26,14 @@ HEADERS += src/StreamBuffer.h
 HEADERS += src/StreamError.h
 HEADERS += src/StreamVersion.h
 
-CPPFLAGS += -DSTREAM_INTERNAL
+CPPFLAGS += -DSTREAM_INTERNAL -I$(COMMON_DIR)
 
-# Update version string (contains __DATE__ and __TIME__)
-# each time anything changed.
-StreamVersion$(OBJ): StreamVersion.h $(filter-out StreamVersion$(OBJ) stream_exportAddress$(OBJ),$(LIBOBJS) $(LIBRARY_OBJS))
+# Update version string each time anything changes
+StreamVersion$(OBJ) StreamVersion$(DEP): $(COMMON_DIR)/StreamVersion.h $(filter-out StreamVersion$(OBJ) stream_exportAddress$(OBJ),$(LIBOBJS) $(LIBRARY_OBJS))
 
-MAKE_FIRST=src/StreamVersion.h
-src/StreamVersion.h: $(SOURCES) $(filter-out %StreamVersion.h, $(HEADERS))
-	@echo Creating $@ from git tag
-	$(PERL) src/makeStreamVersion.pl > $@
+$(COMMON_DIR)/StreamVersion.h: $(filter-out StreamVersion.h,$(notdir $(SOURCES) $(HEADERS)))
+	@echo Creating $@
+	$(PERL) ../src/makeStreamVersion.pl $@
 
 StreamCore$(OBJ) StreamCore$(DEP): streamReferences
 streamReferences:

src/Makefile

@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ CPPFLAGS += -DSTREAM_INTERNAL
 # Update version string whenever something changed.
 StreamVersion$(OBJ): $(COMMON_DIR)/StreamVersion.h $(filter-out StreamVersion$(OBJ),$(LIBOBJS) $(LIBRARY_OBJS)) ../CONFIG_STREAM
 $(COMMON_DIR)/StreamVersion.h: $(SRCS) $(filter-out StreamVersion.h, $(INC))
-	@echo Creating $@ from git tag
-	$(PERL) ../makeStreamVersion.pl > $@
+	@echo Creating $@
+	$(PERL) ../makeStreamVersion.pl $@
 
 # Add references to all registrars to main file to avoid
 # missing initialization.

src/StreamVersion.c

@@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ const char StreamVersion [] =
     "." STR(STREAM_MINOR)
     "." STR(STREAM_PATCHLEVEL)
     STREAM_DEV
-    " built " __DATE__ " " __TIME__;
+    " commit:" STREAM_COMMIT_HASH;

src/makeStreamVersion.pl

@@ -22,21 +22,38 @@
 
 use strict;
 
-my $dir = "O.Common";
-my $versionfile = "StreamVersion.h";
 
-my $version = `git describe --tags --dirty --match "[0-9]*"`
-    or die "Cannot run git.\n";
+my ( $major, $minor, $patch, $dev, $branch, $date, $hash );
 
-my ( $major, $minor, $patch, $dev );
+if (my $version = `git describe --tags --dirty --match "[0-9]*" 2>/dev/null`) {
+    if ($version =~ m/(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)?(.*)?/) {
+        $major = $1; $minor = $2; $patch = $3; $dev = $4;
+    }
+    if (`git log -1 --format="%H %ci"`=~ m/([[:xdigit:]]+) (.+)/) {
+        $hash = $1; $date = $2;
+    }
+}
+if (!$major) {
+    if (open(my $fh, '<', '../../.VERSION')) {
+        while (my $line = <$fh>) {
+            if ($line =~ m/COMMIT: *([[:xdigit:]]+)/) {
+                $hash = $1;
+            }
+            if ($line =~ m/REFS: *tag: *((\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)?,)? *(.*)/) {
+                $major = $2; $minor = $3; $patch = $4; $branch = $5;
+            }
+            if ($line =~ m/DATE: *(.+)/) {  
+                $date = $1;
+            }
+        }
+    } else {
+        print "neither git repo nor .VERSION file found\n";
+    }
+}
 
-$version =~ m/(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)?(.*)?/
-    or die "Unexpected git tag format $version\n";
-
-$major = $1; $minor=$2; $patch=$3; $dev=$4;
-
-print << "EOF";
-/* Generated file $versionfile */
+open my $out, '>', @ARGV or die $!;
+print $out <<EOF;
+/* Generated file */
 
 #ifndef StreamVersion_h
 #define StreamVersion_h
@@ -45,6 +62,10 @@ print << "EOF";
 #define STREAM_MINOR $minor
 #define STREAM_PATCHLEVEL $patch
 #define STREAM_DEV "$dev"
+#define STREAM_COMMIT_HASH "$hash"
+#define STREAM_COMMIT_DATE "$date"
 
 #endif /* StreamVersion_h */
 EOF
+
+close $out