[FFmpeg-devel] ffmpg -version gives strange version output

[Helmut Tessarek]

This happens after I compile the git ffmpeg source (baaa6d6):

./ffmpeg -version
ffmpeg version 2.1.git-tessus
built on Feb 14 2014 22:15:20 with llvm-gcc 4.2.1 (LLVM build 2336.1.00)
configuration: --prefix=/Users/tessus/data/ext/ffmpeg/sw --as=yasm
--extra-version=tessus --disable-shared --enable-static --disable-ffplay
--enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --enable-postproc --enable-libmp3lame
--enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid
--enable-libspeex --enable-bzlib --enable-zlib --enable-libopencore-amrnb
--enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libxavs --enable-version3
--enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvpx --enable-libgsm
--enable-libopus --enable-libmodplug --enable-fontconfig --enable-libfreetype
--enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-filters --enable-runtime-cpudetect
libavutil      52. 63.101 / 52. 63.101
libavcodec     55. 52.101 / 55. 52.101
libavformat    55. 32.101 / 55. 32.101
libavdevice    55.  9.101 / 55.  9.101
libavfilter     4.  1.102 /  4.  1.102
libswscale      2.  5.101 /  2.  5.101
libswresample   0. 17.104 /  0. 17.104
libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100

In previous versions it was shown as (just an exampe from a previous build):
ffmpeg version N-60633-g674195c-tessus

I asked this question on the #ffmpeg-devel channel as well and Michael
suggested to clone the repository into a new directory and try again.

I did that and it did not help. Maybe it has to do with the --extra-version
config option or somebody changed the build scripts, because the version.sh
script does give me an output in the format N-MMMMM-gXXXXXXX, but I couldn't
find that string anywhere in the code.

Isn't the build process supposed to write that info into a version file?

Cheers,
  Helmut

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