From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/4166 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Feature request Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 00:54:54 -0400 Message-ID: <20131029045454.GU20515@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20131029023312.GR20515@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <526F21F5.2010806@gentoo.org> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383022503 17191 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2013 04:55:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:55:03 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-4170-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Oct 29 05:55:09 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vb1Ke-0001MZ-Gr for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 05:55:08 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 7990 invoked by uid 550); 29 Oct 2013 04:55:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 7980 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2013 04:55:06 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <526F21F5.2010806@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:4166 Archived-At: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 03:48:21AM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 29/10/13 03:33, Rich Felker wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 08:13:09PM +0000, Paul Schutte wrote: > >> Hi Guys, > >> > >> Would it be possible for you to add the version of musl to the output of > >> libc.so ? > >> > >> root@sabotage:~# /lib/libc.so > >> musl libc/dynamic program loader > >> usage: /lib/libc.so pathname [args] > >> > >> I have several machines with musl on it and it will be very helpful to see > >> which version is installed. > > > > Indeed, this has been something I've wanted to add for a while, and > > which should definitely be in for 1.0. It's just a matter of doing the > > right thing in the build and release system to get the version in > > there, and it's not clear what the version should read for git builds > > between versions. I think this is a good chance to discuss that. > > git describe short signature might be the best option. Thanks for the git-fu help. I'm assuming you mean using something like "git describe --tags"? Use of this could be contingent on either a .git dir, or lack of a version file added to release tarballs. The only thing that's not clear is how to handle non-release source trees present on a build system that lacks a working git installation. Rich