[Openchrome-devel] generate svnrelease.h on make dist

[Xavier Bachelot]

Xavier Bachelot wrote:
> Xavier Bachelot wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd like to have make dist automagically generate a svnrelease.h file 
>> that contains :
>> #define BUILDCOMMENT "(openchrome 0.2.901 release)\n"
>>
>> with the version taken from configure.ac (or major, minor and patchlevel 
>> from src/via_driver.h ?)
>> configure.ac and src/via_driver.h are the only filers that needs to be 
>> modified before a release and svnrelease.h should never be in the 
>> repository.
>>
>> I don't think it'd be that hard for someone who understand the 
>> autotools, but I unfortunately don't :-(
>>
> Ok, I solved this problem. Changeset 554 if anyone is interested.
> 
Ok, autotool bite me again. the svnrelease.h file is properly generated 
by 'make dist', however the file is not added in the tarball. I tried to 
add svnrelease.h to EXTRA_DIST but then it complains that there's not 
target for svnrelease.h

Anyone can help, it's driving me nuts...

Regards,
Xavier