[Mesa-dev] [PATCH v2] build: unify mesa version by using a VERSION file

[Kenneth Graunke]

On 07/25/2013 12:39 PM, Emil Velikov wrote:
> Rather than having to keep track of all the build systems and their respecitve
> definition of the mesa version, use a single top file VERSION. Every build
> system is responsible for reading/parsing the file and using it
>
> v2:
> * remove useless bulletpoint from the documentation, suggested by Matt
> * "Androing is Linux. Use '/' in stead of '\'", spotted by Chad V
> * use cleaner code to get the version in scons, suggested by Chad V
>
> Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
> ---
>
> Thanks for the tips and review guys.
> Feel free to commit if it's ok now - lacking the access rights :\
>
> Cheers
> Emil

I like the idea of this patch, but there's one problem: autogen.sh dies 
with a really cryptic error if the VERSION file ends with a newline.  My 
editor, at least, seems to want to append that automatically, so I 
assume others will run into that problem as well.

We could work around this by always doing:
$ echo -n '9.3.0-devel' > VERSION

but...I wonder if there's some way to make this more robust without 
complicating the code too badly.

--Ken