build version and date

[John Ralls]

On Dec 16, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> On Thu, December 16, 2010 5:03 pm, Christian Stimming wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2010 schrieb Geert Janssens:
>>> On Thursday 16 December 2010, jh wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 21:34 -0800, J. Alex Aycinena wrote:
>>>>> The last couple of times that I've done an 'svn update' and rebuilt
>>> my
>>>>> working copy of gnucash, I've noticed that the splash screen shows
>>>>> 'built from svn r19910 on 2010-12-06' even though this is not the
>>>>> case. The 'About ...' shows the same. Previously it always showed
>>> the
>>>>> correct data. It is the same on both of my systems. Are others
>>> seeing
>>>>> the same or is it something about my systems?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Alex
>>>> 
>>>> Same problem here since a couple of days. No update of the working
>>>> version since 19913.
>>>> Juergen
>>> 
>>> The svn version is read from a generated file, gnc-svninfo.h. This file
>>> has
>>> recently been moved to another directory. It's possible that the old
>>> file
>>> is still available and being found before the new file.
>> 
>> I've implemented the include path with directory. This way, the new file
>> should be picked correctly now. Does it work with r19952 and higher again?
> 
> I'm scared this might break different build scenarios, like building
> outside the sourcedir.  The sources as-is certainly build from a clean
> checkout.  Maybe just force-remove the file during "clean" in the old
> location?
> 

Indeed, that was Mike's original reason for moving it from gnome-utils: I had added a path include in the sql backend for recording the revision number in the database for change control. 

If core-utils is specified with a -I directive in Makefile, then writing #include <gnc-version.h> instead of #include "gnc-version.h" should ensure that the leftover one in gnome-utils isn't picked up. 

Regards,
John Ralls