1#!/bin/sh
2
3# Determine the version string to build into a binary.
4# When building in the git repository, we can use the output 
5# of "git describe" which gives an unequivocal answer.
6#
7# Failing that, we use the contents of the VERSION file
8# which has a set of references substituted into it by git.
9# If we can find one which matches $v[0-9].* then we assume it's
10# a version-number tag, else we just use the whole string.
11# If there is more than one v[0-9].* tag, sort them and use the
12# first. This favours, eg v2.63 over 2.63rc6.
13
14if which git >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -d $1/.git ]; then
15     cd $1; git describe
16elif grep '\$Format:%d\$' $1/VERSION >/dev/null 2>&1; then
17# unsubstituted VERSION, but no git available.
18    echo UNKNOWN
19else
20     vers=`cat $1/VERSION | sed 's/[(), ]/,/ g' | tr ',' '\n' | grep ^v[0-9]`
21
22     if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
23         echo "${vers}" | sort | head -n 1 | sed 's/^v//'
24     else
25         cat $1/VERSION
26     fi
27fi
28
29exit 0
30
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