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.
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.
14 if which git
>/dev
/null
2>&1 && [ -d $1/.git
]; then
16 elif grep '\$Format:%d\$' $1/VERSION
>/dev
/null
2>&1; then
17 # unsubstituted VERSION, but no git available.
20 vers
=`cat $1/VERSION | sed 's/[(), ]/,/ g' | tr ',' '\n' | grep ^v[0-9]`
23 echo "${vers}" |
sort |
head -n 1 |
sed 's/^v//'