Git describe happily picks whatever annotated tag is closest to the
commit. I make use of many annotated tags that correspond not to
ELinks releases but rather to patches posted in bugzilla or sent in
email. So with git describe, the About window can display e.g.
"email/witekfl/2008-02-29-2-g705acfa-dirty", which is not the intended
use of this tag.
In the "next" branch of git.git, git describe apparently supports a
--match option with which it could be made to consider ELinks releases
only. However, that option is not yet in any released version of Git,
and anyhow ELinks should support older versions too.
Instead of using git describe, just show the full SHA-1, like
cg-commit-id would. The About dialog box also displays VERSION
from configure.in, so it isn't even particularly useful to show
the name of the latest tag. (The commit count might help though.)
The build ID now includes both last tagged version, commit generation
since last tagged version, as well as the leading characters of the
commit ID and a flag for dirty working tree.
(cherry picked from commit c2a0d3b969)
Makes it more obvious which files are actually installed. MKINSTALLDIRS
still spurs out a lot of 'mkdir ...', which probably should also be
silenced when V=0.
It is a little ugly since I couldn't get $(wildcard) to expand *.o files
so it just checks if there are any *.c files and then link in the lib.o
based on that.
Ditch the building of an archive (.a) in favour of linking all objects in a
directory into a lib.o file. This makes it easy to link in subdirectories
and more importantly keeps the build logic in the local subdirectories.
Note: after updating you will have to rm **/*.a if you do not make clean
before updating.
Finally, we are able to identify the builds more accurately. Now we check
if commit-id (cogito tool) is available and pass the output to vernum.c
compilation which then exports it as a build_id string.
The first line of --version is now a bit long, we should probably move the
build date to a second indented line or something.
