Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Tue, 18 Aug 2020 08:07:36 -0700

On 8/18/20 2:17 AM, Jeong Han Lee via Core-talk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I don't know if this feature is intentionally designed.  From my
> naive perspective, there is a logic to check whether option -V is
> defined or not. This is a quick-and-dirty P0 patch.

As I recall, '-V <ver>' was intended as a fallback if/when no VCS info
is available.  So it should be overridden if any of the conditions
are matched.

If you always want to use a version string stored in a Make variable,
then you might be better off using expandVars.pl (or just 'cat' if you're
in a hurry).

> $ ./bin/linux-x86_64/genVersionHeader.pl -h
> Usage:
...
>         -V version - Version if no VCS (e.g. '2020-08-18T08:01-0700')

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System