[Chicken-hackers] Problem compiling git snapshots

[esp2200]

Hello,

In the last few days, compiling git snapshots of "Master", et. al., has failed after invoking "identify.sh"; gcc emits errors about not finding files: buildid, buildbranch, and buildtag.h .

Seems identify.sh is trying to get info from a ".git" directory, but the git snapshots don't have the directory, so the shell script doesn't write the build* files, hence the build fails.

This very simple patch solved the problem:

--- identify-orig.sh

   

2011-07-23 03:13:18.000000000 -0700
+++ identify.sh

   

2011-07-25 22:51:34.000000000 -0700
@@ -35,4 +35,9 @@
     if test "${tag0}" \!= "${tag}"; then
 

   

echo ${tag} >buildtag.h
     fi
+else
+    tag="#define C_BUILD_TAG \"compiled ${buildtime} on ${host} (${usys})\""
+    echo ${rev} >buildid
+    echo ${branchname} >buildbranch
+    echo ${tag} >buildtag.h
 fi

Don't know if this is best solution, or will even be needed later.  But it works around the apparent quirks of git's snapshots.

Thanks,
Jules Altfas