After compiling I get version "unknown-090414"

[Portasmith]

Compiled on Vista x64 inside Cygwin.  Compile went great, install went great, works great.

But the version is reported as "unknown-090414"

I built from r20707 sources, so why does it show "unknown?"  How can I add the version information?

Thanks.

[saratoga]

Did you check out the code from SVN or download a tar?

[Portasmith]

I downloaded the 7z from http://build.rockbox.org/

Everytime I tried to get the SVN, it would freeze at tools/release/README.  It did that both in Debian GNU/Linux as well as in Windows with QSvn.

I download OpenWrt and Miranda IM from SVN all the time with no problems, so I don't know why svn would freeze while downloading Rockbox.

Why will compiling from a tarball (or the 7z files) not give me the revision number?

[saratoga]

My guess is that it needs SVN in order to get the revision number.

[Portasmith]

Well, thanks for the help.   I'll see if I can get SVN going

EDIT: Yep, downloaded from SVN did it.  Got a version number now. Thanks.

[bluebrother]

My guess is that it needs SVN in order to get the revision number.

It does. See the script tools/version.sh

[karltpb]

I'm usually on a slow connection, so getting a compressed tarball is easier for me. I have no option but to add it manually. Could you tell me what file stores the revision number, so I can manually edit it?

I suck at shell scripts and therefore "version.sh" did not help me at all.

[Llorean]

You only need to download all of SVN once. After that, updates will be much smaller than the tarball will be.

Why do you need a displayed version number for your own personal builds? We'll still be asking you to use a build provided by us if you're going to be issuing a bug report.