From de2c2b5a9806886d93b29f92c7bb4cfa80ddfabd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 23:17:11 +0000
Subject: Directly read the version number from a VERSION file; useful for
 releases.

Originally committed as revision 17836 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
---
 version.sh | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'version.sh')

diff --git a/version.sh b/version.sh
index adaa46aa91..9809d6d14e 100755
--- a/version.sh
+++ b/version.sh
@@ -13,12 +13,16 @@ if ! test $revision; then
     test $revision && revision=git-$revision
 fi
 
-# no version number found
+# no revision number found
 test $revision || revision=UNKNOWN
 
-test -n "$3" && revision=$revision-$3
+# releases extract the version number from the VERSION file
+version=$(cat VERSION 2> /dev/null)
+test $version || version=$revision
 
-NEW_REVISION="#define FFMPEG_VERSION \"$revision\""
+test -n "$3" && version=$version-$3
+
+NEW_REVISION="#define FFMPEG_VERSION \"$version\""
 OLD_REVISION=$(cat version.h 2> /dev/null)
 
 # Update version.h only on revision changes to avoid spurious rebuilds
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