Use the svn revision number for version information too, version string is now "r<revision>-<builddate> unless there is a static version file (e.g. created by tools/release).

git-svn-id: svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk@12090 a1c6a512-1295-4272-9138-f99709370657

3 files changed, 37 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/configure b/tools/configure
index 26d41404c6..174beed644 100755
--- a/tools/configure
+++ b/tools/configure
@@ -1579,7 +1579,7 @@ export OBJDIR=@PWD@
 export BUILDDIR=@PWD@
 export LANGUAGE=@LANGUAGE@
 export MEMORYSIZE=@MEMORY@
-export VERSION=\$(shell date -u +%y%m%d-%H%M)
+export VERSION=\$(shell \$(TOOLSDIR)/svnversion.sh \$(ROOTDIR))
 export BUILDDATE=\$(shell date -u +'-DYEAR=%Y -DMONTH=%m -DDAY=%d')
 export MKFIRMWARE=@TOOL@
 export BMP2RB_MONO=@BMP2RB_MONO@
diff --git a/tools/release b/tools/release
index 1a0b245a2f..3c5d5037fe 100755
--- a/tools/release
+++ b/tools/release
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ if(!-f "apps/version.h") {
     print "run this script in the root dir\n";
     exit;
 }
+# save the complete version string for VERSION file,
+# strip everything after space / hyphen for filename
+$longversion = $ARGV[0];
+$version =~ s/[ -].+//;
 
 # -L allows find to follow symbolic links
 @files=`find -L . -name FILES`;
@@ -84,7 +88,6 @@ for(@entries) {
     `cp -p $_ $dir 2>/dev/null`;
 }
 
-
 if(!open(VERSION, "<apps/version.h")) {
     print "Can't read version.h\n";
     exit;
@@ -101,5 +104,12 @@ while(<VERSION>) {
 close(VERSION);
 close(THIS);
 
+if(!open(VER, ">rockbox-$version/docs/VERSION")) {
+    print "Can't create new docs/VERSION file\n";
+    exit;
+}
+print VER $version;
+close(VER);
+
 `tar -cjf rockbox-$version.tar.bz2 rockbox-$version`;
 `rm -rf rockbox-$version`;
diff --git a/tools/svnversion.sh b/tools/svnversion.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..5e96bf925c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/svnversion.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#             __________               __   ___.
+#   Open      \______   \ ____   ____ |  | _\_ |__   _______  ___
+#   Source     |       _//  _ \_/ ___\|  |/ /| __ \ /  _ \  \/  /
+#   Jukebox    |    |   (  <_> )  \___|    < | \_\ (  <_> > <  <
+#   Firmware   |____|_  /\____/ \___  >__|_ \|___  /\____/__/\_ \
+#                     \/            \/     \/    \/            \/
+# $Id:$
+#
+
+# Usage: svnversion.sh [source-root]
+
+VERSIONFILE=docs/VERSION
+if [ -n "$1" ]; then TOP=$1; else TOP=..; fi
+if [ -r $TOP/$VERSIONFILE ]; then SVNVER=`cat $TOP/$VERSIONFILE`; 
+else if [ `which svnversion 2>/dev/null` ]; 
+    then SVNVER=r`svnversion $1`;
+    if [ $SVNVER = "rexported" ]; then 
+        SVNVER=unknown;
+    fi
+else SVNVER="unknown"; fi
+fi
+VERSION=$SVNVER-`date -u +%y%m%d`
+echo $VERSION
+