[GRASS-dev] GRASS 7 - Ubuntu package build problem on Launchpad

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Ivan Mincik <ivan.mincik at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 30.12.2014 15:00, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> GRASS 7.0.0 (latlong):~ > Unable to get GRASS version Unable to get
>> GRASS version
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>> GRASS 7.0.0 (latlong):~ > g.version -g version=7.0.0svn date=2014
>> revision= build_date=2014-12-13 build_platform=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
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> Fine, I have also seen this error. I was not sure if it is bug or some
> build configuration problem, so I was not sure if I should report it.

It only occurs on Ubuntu and will render GRASS (partially) unusable.

> My earlier note to packages versioning:
> For Ubuntu PPA builds I strongly suggest to update build recipe with
> SVN revision number instead of meaningless BZR one, which has no
> relation to SVN and is confusing:
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> Proposed recipe:
> # bzr-builder format 0.4 deb-version 7.0.0+1svn{svn-revno}
> lp:grass/7.0
> nest debianfiles lp:~grass/grass/grass70_release_debian debian

Not really being an Ubuntu user I have no opinion here.

But this is how the version is generated:

# original source code
include/Make/Platform.make.in:GRASS_VERSION_SVN   = @GRASS_VERSION_SVN@

# --> configure -->
include/Make/Platform.make:GRASS_VERSION_SVN   = 63869M

# g.version:
general/g.version/Makefile
EXTRA_CFLAGS = $(PROJINC) $(GEOSCFLAGS) \
...
        -DGRASS_VERSION_SVN=\"'$(GRASS_VERSION_SVN)'\" \

general/g.version/main.c
# line 99:
         fprintf(stdout, "revision=%s\n", GRASS_VERSION_SVN);

So, when running "configure" before compilation, the version number is
picked up:
In "configure" line 1281 and later, it executes

svnversion

which reports the SVN revision number.  Could you please execute
"svnversion" in your GRASS 7.0.svn source code main directory?

Markus