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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/5/2015 4:03 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 2015-07-05 21:48 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> This week did not go as planned.  I was ready to pull the trigger on the
>> stable branch yesterday when the 3D viewer crash report came in.  I
>> would like to get that addressed before I create the stable branch.
>> Once this fix is committed, I will create a stable branch (4.0.0-rc1)
>> for testing.  This means no new features (except possibly Tom's Eeschema
>> to Pcbnew update patch) until after the stable release.  We will
>> continue to apply bug fixes to the product branch so the autobuilders
>> can be used for testing.  I will periodically merge the fixes into the
>> stable release branch until it's ready for prime time.
>>
>> I just committed a change in how the build version string is generated
>> which should fix the long standing issue of the bzr version not getting
>> updated automatically without running `make rebuild_cache`.  I also
>> added the ability to define the version string during CMake
>> configuration which will allow packagers to define the appropriate
>> version string for stable release builds.  Configuring CMake like this:
>>
>> cmake -DKICAD_BUILD_VERSION="4.0.0-rc1" -DKICAD_REPO_NAME="stable"
>>
>> will result in a build string of:
>>
>> 4.0.0-rc1-stable
> 
> Will you update the documenation in
> Documentation/compiling/build-config.txt on this?

Will do.

> 
>> I've only tested this on windows so please let me know if you find any
>> issues on other platforms.  For those of you who are using the msys2
>> package builder file PKGBUILD to build kicad, please note that the msys2
>> version of bzr is broken and will fail attempting to determine the bzr
>> version.  Please comment out the bzr source build dependency in PKGBUILD
>> and use one of the native bzr windows installers instead.  Make sure to
>> add the bzr executable to your system path so CMake can find it during
>> configuration.  I will remove it from the PKGBUILD file and send a pull
>> request to the msys2 devs when I get a chance.
> 
> The PKGBUILD I am using is using git, because that is what the initial
> PKGBUILD was based upon, and git has proven much easier to work with
> in this regard too... bzr is very slow.
> 
> With this I am currently patching the version string to calculate BZR
> version string and also list the short git commit hash.
> 
> Are you interested in merging this patch by now?  It will also help
> other people using git to build with.  I guess I will have to apply
> the new logic from CreateBzrVersionHeader.cmake to my
> CreateGitVersionHeader.cmake.

I will merge it if it helps create usable build version information.

> 
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
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