[Rd] version stamp details missing on current checkout

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk>
>>>>>     on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:03:31 +0200 writes:

    PD> Vincent Carey 525-2265 wrote:
    PD> Works for me... what's in your SVN-REVISION file? Notice that there is 
    PD> some slightly weird logic to distinguish whether you are building from 
    PD> SVN or from tarballs, based on the existence of $(srcdir)/doc/FAQ and 
    PD> $(builddir)/non-tarball. If you have the former and not the latter, it 
    PD> is assumed that there will be a ready-made SVN-REVISION.

    PD> There's a bug in the Makefile, though:

    PD> svnonly:
    PD> @if test ! -f "$(srcdir)/doc/FAQ" || test -f non-tarball ; then \
    PD> (cd doc/manual && $(MAKE) front-matter html-non-svn) ; \
    PD> touch non-tarball ; \
    PD> (cd $(srcdir); LC_ALL=C TZ=GMT svn -rHEAD info || $(ECHO) 
    PD> "Revision: unknown") 2> /dev/null \
    PD> | sed -n -e '/^Revision/p' -e '/^Last Changed Date/'p \
    PD> | cut -d' ' -f1,2,3,4 > SVN-REVISION-tmp ; \
    PD> ...etc...

    PD> I don't think we want the -rHEAD there since it can cause the version 
    PD> stamp to become different from the version of the source files in case 
    PD> of an intervening commit.

Hmm, I have added the  -rHEAD   there  about a week ago, 
since there is a bug if it's not there:

SVN-REVISION easily won't be updated correctly, and if you don't
use HEAD : The implicit default seems to be  '-rBASE'
and that can lag behind quite a bit.

It had bitten me so many times that I wanted to see something better.

Martin


    >> this is from a fresh svn checkout:
    >> 
    >> [stvjc at stvjc1 R-devel]$ ls -tl Makefile
    >> -rw-rw-r--  1 stvjc stvjc 12833 Jun 26 07:24 Makefile
    >> [stvjc at stvjc1 R-devel]$ svn up
    >> At revision 45988.
    >> [stvjc at stvjc1 R-devel]$ bin/R
    >> 
    >> R version 2.8.0 Under development (unstable) (--)
    >> Copyright (C)  The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
    >> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
    >> 
    >> ..
    >> 
    >> 
    >>> sessionInfo()
    >>> 
    >> R version 2.8.0 Under development (unstable) (--)
    >> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
    >> 
    >> locale:
    >> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
    >> 
    >> attached base packages:
    >> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> ---
    >> Vince Carey, PhD
    >> Assoc. Prof Med (Biostatistics)
    >> Harvard Medical School
    >> Channing Laboratory - ph 6175252265 fa 6177311541
    >> 181 Longwood Ave Boston MA 02115 USA
    >> stvjc at channing.harvard.edu
    >> 
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