On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Blumentrath, Stefan <
Stefan.Blumentrath@nina.no> wrote:
What about grass70 --config?
Cheers
Stefan
--config does not work for 64.
For 70 it does not give version, only revision (of library I think). We
should probably change the format to be more parseable. The line order is
really not stable, I'm not sure what other do.
$ grass71 --config
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
./configure --enable-largefile=yes --with-nls --with-cxx --with-readline
--with-pthread --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj
--with-geos=/usr/bin/geos-config --with-wxwidgets --with-cairo
--with-opengl-libs=/usr/include/GL --with-freetype=yes
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2/ --with-postgresql=yes
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql --with-sqlite=yes
--with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-odbc=no
--with-liblas=yes --with-liblas-config=/usr/bin/liblas-config
gcc
/home/vasek/dev/grass/gcc_trunk/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
63639
}}}
70 --help has actually version number on the first line as 64 --version has
but 64 --help does not have the version, except for usage (at least the one
from Ubuntu package).
I'm afraid we have to implement something better. What would it be?
*From:* grass-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
grass-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Vaclav Petras
*Sent:* 29. januar 2015 23:10
*To:* Rainer M Krug
*Cc:* grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
*Subject:* Re: [GRASS-dev] Getting version number *before* starting
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> wrote:
Hi
I would, for implementation in spgrass7 in R, to be able to get the version
number of GRASS GIS before starting GRASS.
I know about the --version parameter of grass command.
{{{
$ grass64 --version
GRASS GIS 6.4.4
Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) is Copyright,
1999-2014 by the GRASS Development Team, and licensed under terms of the
GNU General Public License (GPL) version >=2.
This GRASS 6.4.4 release is coordinated and produced by the...
}}}
Unfortunately for GRASS GIS 7 it is giving more the license and about then
the version:
{{{
$ grass71 --version
Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) is Copyright,
1999-2014 by the GRASS Development Team, and licensed under terms of the
GNU General Public License (GPL) version >=2.
This GRASS 7.1.svn release is coordinated and produced by
}}}
Although, I'm running 71 from source code, so it might be different.
To get general idea, here are examples what other projects have in
--version:
{{{
gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) 4.8.2
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
...
}}}
{{{
pandoc --version
pandoc 1.12.2.1
Compiled with texmath 0.6.5.2, highlighting-kate 0.5.5.1.
Syntax highlighting is supported for the following languages:
...
}}}
I know that in the file
,----
| GRASS_BASE_DIRECTORY/etc/VERSIONNUMBER
`----
the version number is stored, but I have two questions:
1) is this the same between systems (I saw it in Mac Linux and Windows)?
2) I assume the location of this file is very un-likely to change?
3) can the internal structure of the GDRASS_BASE_DIRECTORY be configured
during the build process (particularly the bin/ and the location of
VERSIONNUMBER), and if yes, how can I obtain the location of these folders?
So: would there be any downside in just reading this file to determine
the version of GRASS GIS, as the grass startup script seems to be
reading from that file as well?
Thanks,
Rainer
--
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