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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2016-11-14 20:18 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On 11/14/2016 1:37 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:59:53PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>> Apparently package devs hate it because they
>>> had remember to set the version and branch strings at config time when
>>> building from source archives otherwise they end up with no-vcs-found
>>> version string.  I see Chris added this back into the master branch but
>>> I'm not sure I'm going to keep it.  Developers should be using the
>>> version string generated by git and package devs should be using the
>>> version set in KiCadVersion.cmake.  I can't see any reason for a third
>>> option.
>>
>> Apologies, I was under the impression this was still our preferred way
>> to set the build version. Are our intentions for this documented
>> somewhere?
>
> No problem.  I should have asked on the dev list before I removed the
> config defined option.  It seems that it was more beneficial than I
> thought it was.
>
> I just haven't gotten around to documenting KiCadVersion.cmake yet.
> It's on my short list of things to to do.  I've just been buried at work
> and haven't had time to get to it.  I will update the build from source
> developers doc before the next stable release.
>

The only place where it is sort of documented is on
http://kicad-pcb.org/download/source/

Intended to be the place to find an overview of kicad for packagers. I
intend that to be the minimum that is needed for a so called kicad
package. Command for command instructions on how to build kicad, FWIW.

>>
>>>
>>> I will be in an out all day today so if I don't reply I'm not ignoring
>>> you I've just got a full plate today and will respond as soon as I get a
>>> chance.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Wayne
>>>
>>> On 11/12/2016 11:55 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>>>> Hi Wayne,
>>>>
>>>> Good news to see a new release, but I wonder about two things:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Boost 1.61 compatibility and bugfix?
>>>> 2. Release version string.
>>>>
>>>> Should the release should include the boost 1.61 fix. It was discussed in:
>>>> [Kicad-developers] About Bug 1604841: Pcbnew crash at moving via, and
>>>> boost::context fixes to make it compatible with boost 1.61
>>>>
>>>> And there is a patch in [1], although it does not explicitly state
>>>> where it is from, but it looks similar to [2] and [3]. With out the
>>>> patch in [1] I can not build it against boost 1.62 on archlinux.
>>>>
>>>> Secondly, I would like to know how we are supposed to set the release
>>>> infor for the version string. For the 4.0.0--4.0.4 you are supposed to
>>>> use the following options to set the version string:
>>>>
>>>> -DKICAD_REPO_NAME=stable -DKICAD_BUILD_VERSION=4.0.5
>>>>
>>>> But KICAD_REPO_NAME does not seem to exist anymore... even though I
>>>> set KICAD_BUILD_VERSION it gets overridden by the git info and the
>>>> version string becomes:
>>>> #define KICAD_FULL_VERSION "(2016-11-09 revision 18f77b8)-4.0"
>>>>
>>>> I would have expected to get something like we are used to as,
>>>> "4.0.5-stable" for example.
>>>>
>>>> Nick
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/boost-1.61.patch?h=packages/kicad
>>>> [2] https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/commit/?id=06d4894fdbeb00727cdcc667b8899ad73d8eb1c2
>>>> [3] https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/commit/?id=78bc3c65de6c03d19be9902327d08cd4d87c229c
>>>> [4] https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg25556.html
>>>>
>>>> 2016-11-11 23:44 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>> This is the last call for patches to the 4 stable branch.  If I don't
>>>>> hear anything, I will set version string and tag 4.0.5 in the stable
>>>>> branch on Sunday and give our library, doc, translation, and package
>>>>> devs a couple of weeks to prepare before I make the official announcement.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Wayne
>>>>>
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