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Including SVN revision of a project in C source code

How to include SVN revision of my project (not file revision) in C source code or in Makefile?

Solution

  • We use a line like this in our makefile:

    REPO_REV := $(shell svnversion -n)

    That stores the revision number of the working copy into a make variable. To use it in C code, you can have your makefile use that value to define a macro on the compiler command line (something like -DREPO_REV=$(REPO_REV) for gcc).