Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add a SNAPSHOT flag to be able to generate snapshots from CVS

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> The following patch adds a "SNAPSHOT" variable to the Makefile which can be
> changed to "yes" (or any other value) so that `make -k tar` generates a
> snapshot tar (on a configured or not CVS tree) instead of a release source tar
> (useful when debugging a version of the CVS tree) by using a generated version 
> based on the current date through GNU date.
> 
> Only the name of the tar is changed so to keep all internal logic that relies
> in the version unchanged.
> 
> Carlo

> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /sources/qemu/qemu/Makefile,v
> retrieving revision 1.110
> diff -u -r1.110 Makefile
> --- Makefile	7 Jan 2007 22:04:40 -0000	1.110
> +++ Makefile	22 Jan 2007 09:50:17 -0000
> @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
>  BASE_CFLAGS=
>  BASE_LDFLAGS=
>  
> +SNAPSHOT=
> +
>  BASE_CFLAGS += $(OS_CFLAGS)
>  ifeq ($(ARCH),sparc)
>  BASE_CFLAGS += -mcpu=ultrasparc
> @@ -128,7 +130,15 @@
>  
>  html: qemu-doc.html qemu-tech.html
>  
> -FILE=qemu-$(shell cat VERSION)
> +ifndef VERSION
> +VERSION=$(shell cat VERSION)
> +endif
> +
> +ifneq ($(SNAPSHOT),)
> +SNAPSHOT=.$(shell date -u "+%Y%m%d%H%M")
> +endif

This doesn't work as intended, the SNAPSHOT won't expand to date because
it was overridden from the command line. I made VERSION overridable
instead, this allows to achieve the same effect.


Thiemo