From 06e0954d5ea575a5d555a5cf27f0dce52f27f091 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrea Mazzoleni <amadvance@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 10:07:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add version support also at the source distribution

---
 Makefile.am  |  6 +++++-
 autover.sh   | 14 ++++++++++++++
 configure.ac |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 autover.sh

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 51916503..39dcd149 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -102,8 +102,12 @@ mkstream_SOURCES = \
 	cmdline/stream.c \
 	raid/memory.c
 
+# Add the .version file in the distribution
+dist-hook:
+	$(srcdir)/autover.sh > $(distdir)/.version
+
 EXTRA_DIST = \
-	autogen.sh \
+	autogen.sh autover.sh \
 	README AUTHORS HISTORY INSTALL COPYING TODO CHECK INSTALL.windows \
 	snapraid.d snapraid.1 snapraid.txt \
 	test/test-par1.conf \
diff --git a/autover.sh b/autover.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..79256402
--- /dev/null
+++ b/autover.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+
+if [ -d .git ]; then
+    # Get version from git tags, removing the 'v' prefix
+    VERSION=`git describe --match 'v*' | sed 's/^v//'`
+elif [ -f .version ]; then
+    # Get version from the .version file
+    VERSION=`cat .version`
+else
+    VERSION="none"
+fi
+
+printf '%s' "$VERSION"
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e26cae90..8450ff31 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 AC_PREREQ([2.65])
 dnl Get version number from git
-m4_define([git_revision], m4_esyscmd_s([git describe --match 'v*' | sed 's/^v//']))
+m4_define([git_revision], m4_esyscmd_s([./autover.sh]))
 AC_INIT([snapraid], [git_revision], [], [], [http://www.snapraid.it])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign no-dependencies subdir-objects])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([cmdline/snapraid.c])