From 510283832905ba4476a559f5295ec886dfb20b1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nedko Arnaudov <nedko@nedk.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:55:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] meson: Fix version.h when building from tarball

meson.build always assumed running from git source tree,
resulting in GIT_VERSION with value "" (empty string).

This commit makes meson use the tarballed version.h,
for the cases when not building from git source tree.
---
 NEWS        |  1 +
 meson.build | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 97a6732b..7a269375 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
  * Apply downstream patches from FreeBSD
  * meson: Fix project license field (MIT->GPL-2.0-only)
+ * meson: Fix version.h when building from tarball
 
 = Version 1.1 on 2023-11-26 =
 
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 219e32f5..f7bdf6cf 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -7,13 +7,25 @@ locale_dir = get_option('prefix') / 'share' / 'locale'
 dbus_name_base = 'org.ladish'
 dbus_base_path = '/org/ladish'
 
-git_version = run_command(['git', 'rev-parse', '--short', 'HEAD']).stdout().strip()
+fs = import('fs')
+if fs.is_dir(f'.git')
+  # This block handles building from git source tree
+  # version.h is generated during build
+  git_version = run_command(['git', 'rev-parse', '--short', 'HEAD']).stdout().strip()
 
-configure_file(output : 'version.h',
-    configuration : {
-        'GIT_VERSION' : '"@0@"'.format(git_version)
-    }
-)
+  configure_file(output : 'version.h',
+                 configuration : {
+                                   'GIT_VERSION' : '"@0@"'.format(git_version)
+                 }
+  )
+else
+  # Tarballs already have version.h,
+  # Just copy the file in this case
+  configure_file(output : 'version.h',
+                 input : 'version.h',
+                 copy: true
+  )
+endif
 
 configure_file(output : 'config.h',
   configuration : {