[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: add --build-date and --build-time options

[Timothy Gu]

On Sun Feb 01 2015 at 9:47:12 AM Andreas Cadhalpun <
andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 01.02.2015 18:30, Timothy Gu wrote:
> > On Sun Feb 01 2015 at 9:01:04 AM Andreas Cadhalpun <
> > andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> On 01.02.2015 16:44, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >>> doxygen  doc/Doxyfile
> >>> would lack the revission
> >>
> >> Yes, one has to use the doxy-wrapper to get the revision:
> >> doc/doxy-wrapper.sh ./ doc/Doxyfile doxygen
> >>
> >> Is that a problem?
> >>
> >
> > The "API" documentation on ffmpeg.org is generated with `doxygen
> > doc/Doxyfile`.
>
> Surely that can be changed to above doxy-wrapper call.
>

Yes.


> If you care about that, one could also leave the 'HTML_TIMESTAMP = YES'
> in the Doxyfile and just add 'HTML_TIMESTAMP = NO' to the doxy-wrapper.
>
> That way, everyone using the doxy-wrapper gets a reproducible output
> (with the git revision) and nothing changes for those directly calling
> 'doxygen doc/Doxyfile'.
>

That sounds like a good idea.

Timothy