[BRLTTY] A bug in revision 3008-09 of version 3.8dev?

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2007/04/30 at 14:52 -0400]

>Ah, hmm, no.  I didn't mean the existing driver version string at all. I 
>really mean to have a separate symbol automatically added to each 
>dynamically loaded driver pointing to that string with the global BRLTTY 
>version.  

Yes, I understand now.

>And that string may not only be "BRLTTY version 3.8" but it 
>should also include the svn revision number as reported by svn during 
>the build process, like $(svn info | sed -ne 's/^Revision: //p') as well 
>to be safe.  It would need to be autogenerated and included in the .tgz 
>distribution of course.

Yes. It'd be nice for this to work when the source tree has been exported
(rather than checked out) as well. This is something I haven't figured out how
to do yet. Does anyone know how to get svn export to produce a reliable
revision number? For checked out source I'd use the svnversion command, but, of
course, that doesn't work for exported source.

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