[Asterisk-Dev] Re: Makefile changes in CVS HEAD

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <20050606145203.GG16036 at virtual.bogons.net>,
Simon Lockhart <simon at slimey.org> wrote:
> On Mon Jun 06, 2005 at 02:20:23PM +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> > My suggestion would be for every .c file to contain the following:
> > 
> > static const char cvsid[] = "$Id$";
> > 
> > which would then get filled in by CVS when checking out.
> 
> But how do you include it as part of bug reporting?
> 
> "show modules" could include that version string, but what about modules that 
> contain multiple .c files?
> 
> Request a "strings" of the asterisk binary / module binary ?

Did you look at "man ident"?

The $Id$ string gets expanded to include the filename, CVS version,
date and time. Having it in a static char array makes the binary contain
the string. The "ident" command is like "strings", but searches only
for RCS/CVS keyword strings.

So for example, if you want to know what version of channel.c is in
the asterisk you are reporting a problem about:

# ident asterisk | fgrep channel.c

Cheers
Tony
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