[asterisk-dev] ASTERISK_VERSION_NUM

[George Paltridge]

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On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 9:10 AM George Joseph <gjoseph at sangoma.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 1:44 AM Alexander Traud <pabstraud at compuserve.com>
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>> Not at runtime but at compile-time, how does the compiler of a module
>> detect which version is used? Before Asterisk 11, I included
>> <asterisk/version.h> and the preprocessor macro ASTERISK_VERSION_NUM was
>> available, see [1]. How do I solve that today?
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>> My workaround, because I build in-tree anyway, I patched its Makefile as
>> well: _ASTCFLAGS+=-DASTERISK_VERSION_NUM=$(ASTERISKVERSIONNUM).
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> I was thinking about calling build_tools/make_version from configure.ac
> and having it exported to autoconfig.h but it could get stale if you did a
> git pull on the same branch and didn't re-run ./configure.  The issue I
> have with the -DASTERISK_VERSION_NUM is that IDEs won't detect that and
> will probably show the code as if it weren't defined.   I think the best
> way to do this may be to have configure.ac run make_version but then have
> the Makefile also run it and if it's different, just run sed on
> autoconfig.h to replace the version.
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> You'd have to update:
> configure.ac
> autoconfig.h.in
> makeopts.in
> Makefile.in
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> Should be fairly easy though.
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>> [1] <https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/9ee8a74>
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