[hipl-dev] Re: 'bzr version-info' for version.h creation accesses the network
- From: Diego Biurrun <diego@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hipl-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:51:59 +0100
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 05:07:00AM +0200, Miika Komu wrote:
>
> On 11/12/2010 05:38 PM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 09:51:28PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>> I investigated an old issue that Miika asked me to look into:
>>>
>>> mkomu@bling:~/projects/hipl-bzr/trunk$ make version.h
>>> echo "$(bzr version-info . --custom --template="#define BZR_REVISION
>>> \"{revno}\"\n\n#define BZR_BRANCH \"{branch_nick}\"")"> version.h
>>> ssh: Could not resolve hostname hipl.hiit.fi: Name or service not known
>>>
>>> It appears that 'bzr version-info' accesses the repository over the
>>> network even though it should not be necessary to get the information.
>>> Nonetheless the above command succeeds and version.h is created fine.
>>
>> I found the reason behind this error message: It only appears if you work
>> on a checkout and not a full branch. So use branches if you wish to work
>> without network, it's the sensible thing to do anyway :)
>
> I run into this problem (again) and solved the problem by copying
> version.h from another checkout because I was too impatient to wait for
> ssh timeout.
Why not use a branch instead of a checkout?
> The problem does not recur with the nightly tarball.
'make dist' creates version.h and puts it into the tarball.
Diego
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