Use git description as the tinc version.

Instead of using a hardcoded version number in configure.ac, this makes
tinc use the live version reported by "git describe", queried on-the-fly
during the build process and regenerated for every build.

This provides several advantages:
 - Less redundancy: git is now the source of truth for version
   information, no need to store it in the repository itself.
 - Simpler release process: just creating a git tag automatically
   updates the version. No need to change files.
 - More useful version information: tinc will now display the number of
   commits since the last tag as well as the commit the binary is built
   from, following the format described in git-describe(1).

Here's an example of tincd --version output:

  tinc version release-1.1pre10-48-gc149315 (built Jun 29 2014 15:21:10, protocol 17.3)

When building directly from a release tag, this would like the following:

  tinc version release-1.1pre10 (built Jun 29 2014 15:21:10, protocol 17.3)

(Note that the format is slightly different - because of the way the
tags are named, it says "release-1.1pre10" instead of just "1.1pre10")
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Etienne Dechamps 2014-06-29 15:22:10 +01:00
parent aec82bb1c9
commit e024b7a2c5
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@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ bool detach(void) {
openlogger(identname, use_logfile?LOGMODE_FILE:(do_detach?LOGMODE_SYSLOG:LOGMODE_STDERR));
logger(DEBUG_ALWAYS, LOG_NOTICE, "tincd %s (%s %s) starting, debug level %d",
VERSION, BUILD_DATE, BUILD_TIME, debug_level);
BUILD_VERSION, BUILD_DATE, BUILD_TIME, debug_level);
return true;
}