From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/4167 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Barbato Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Feature request Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 06:06:53 +0100 Message-ID: <526F426D.2050303@gentoo.org> References: <20131029023312.GR20515@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <526F21F5.2010806@gentoo.org> <20131029045454.GU20515@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383023223 23012 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2013 05:07:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 05:07:03 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-4171-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Oct 29 06:07:09 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 1Vb1WE-00052E-FB for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 06:07:06 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 13898 invoked by uid 550); 29 Oct 2013 05:07:05 -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 13890 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2013 05:07:05 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130411 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: <20131029045454.GU20515@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:4167 Archived-At: On 29/10/13 05:54, Rich Felker wrote: > 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. if [ -d .git ]; then VER=$(git describe --always | sed -e "s:v::") if [ x"$(git diff-index --name-only HEAD)" != x ]; then VER="${VER}-dirty" fi elif [ -f .version ]; then VER=$(< .version) else VER="Unknown" fi Or something along the lines. lu