[Ffmpeg-devel] Problem building from snapshots

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:28:13PM +0200, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> [snip]
> >>>test $svn_revision || svn_revision=`cd "$1" && grep revision 
> >>>.svn/entries |
> >>>\
> >>>                                   cut -d '"' -f2 2> /dev/null`
> >>The above tries to guess revision from existing svn metadata. But in 
> >>case the client used does not leave metadata similar to the Linux 
> >>client
> >
> >The problem is that this works only on pre-1.4 Subversion clients as the
> >metadata was restructured with version 1.4.
> >
> Restructured in a way that makes a similar hack impossible?

No, somebody that understands the new format needs to come up with an
equivalent hack for it.

Diego