SVN revision numbers

You will start to see SVN revision numbers appearing in the the R- 
devel version of R, for example

   R : Copyright 2005, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
   Version 2.2.0 Under development (unstable) (2005-05-18 r34401)
   ISBN 3-900051-07-0

This has been done to enable us to track more precisely the sources  
used to build R: the date stamp is imprecise and sometimes gets to  
be wrong in a tarball.

Users building from snapshot tarballs will see this as from tomorrow.

Windows users who used an SVN checkout will see this with immediate  
effect.

Unix-alike users who use an SVN checkout currently will only see
something like:

R.version

         _
platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i686
os       linux-gnu
system   i686, linux-gnu
status   Under development (unstable)
major    2
minor    2.0
year     2005
month    05
day      18
svn rev  unknown
language R

as we still have to decide what to do if e.g. an NFS-mounted SVN  
checkout is used on a machine without SVN.  (In principle that can  
be done on Windows and it is supposed to be working there, but we  
don't feel the need to test it on Windows but do under Unix.)

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I'm seeing an error about not being able to find SVN-REVISION in  
the R (top src dir) when I try to build from current SVN sources.  
Is this a file that is supposed to be generated that I'm not  
generating for some reason, or is this supposed to be in the SVN  
repository?

My apologies if I'm catching the repository in an unstable state  
and this is a known problem.

Thanks,

Cyrus

Following up on my own post... touching non-tarball and then doing a make 
fixes the problem. I assume this is documented somewhere and I just missed 
it.

Cyrus

On May 18, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Cyrus Harmon wrote:

I'm seeing an error about not being able to find SVN-REVISION in the R (top 
src dir) when I try to build from current SVN sources. Is this a file that 
is supposed to be generated that I'm not generating for some reason, or is 
this supposed to be in the SVN repository?

My apologies if I'm catching the repository in an unstable state and this 
is a known problem.

Thanks,

Cyrus

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Cyrus Harmon wrote:

Following up on my own post... touching non-tarball and then doing a make 
fixes the problem. I assume this is documented somewhere and I just missed 
it.

The make process does touch non-tarball: you may need to start from a clean 
build.  (BTW, that's not new.)

On May 18, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Cyrus Harmon wrote:

I'm seeing an error about not being able to find SVN-REVISION in the R 
(top src dir) when I try to build from current SVN sources. Is this a file 
that is supposed to be generated that I'm not generating for some reason, 
or is this supposed to be in the SVN repository?

My apologies if I'm catching the repository in an unstable state and this 
is a known problem.