Add support for passing a version string to configure that is appended to

FFmpeg's version string output. This can be used by distributions to mark
their packages as being modified versions without hacking the sources.

Originally committed as revision 15433 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 24811206e1..fa20647481 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ show_help(){
   echo "  --extra-cflags=ECFLAGS   add ECFLAGS to CFLAGS [$CFLAGS]"
   echo "  --extra-ldflags=ELDFLAGS add ELDFLAGS to LDFLAGS [$LDFLAGS]"
   echo "  --extra-libs=ELIBS       add ELIBS [$ELIBS]"
+  echo "  --extra-version=STRING   version string suffix []"
   echo "  --build-suffix=SUFFIX    suffix for application specific build []"
   echo "  --arch=ARCH              select architecture  [$arch]"
   echo "  --cpu=CPU                selects the minimum cpu required (affects"
@@ -823,6 +824,7 @@ CMDLINE_SET="
     cc
     cpu
     cross_prefix
+    extra_version
     logfile
     source_path
     target_os
@@ -1953,6 +1955,9 @@ echo "ARCH                      $arch ($cpu)"
 if test "$build_suffix" != ""; then
     echo "build suffix              $build_suffix"
 fi
+if test "$extra_version" != ""; then
+    echo "version string suffix     $extra_version"
+fi
 echo "big-endian                ${bigendian-no}"
 if test $arch = "x86_32" -o $arch = "x86_64"; then
     echo "yasm                      ${yasm-no}"
@@ -2083,6 +2088,7 @@ echo "LIBNAME=$LIBNAME" >> config.mak
 echo "SLIBPREF=$SLIBPREF" >> config.mak
 echo "SLIBSUF=$SLIBSUF" >> config.mak
 echo "EXESUF=$EXESUF" >> config.mak
+echo "EXTRA_VERSION=$extra_version" >> config.mak
 echo "DEPEND_CMD=$DEPEND_CMD" >> config.mak
 
 if enabled bigendian; then