Add LXC version information to version.h

So that applications can get the LXC version number at compile time.

This can be used to make applications/bindings that support compiling against
multiple versions of LXC.

Signed-off-by: S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@10ur.org>
Acked-by: Stéphane Graber <stgraber@ubuntu.com>

.gitignore

@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ src/lxc/lxc-version
 src/lxc/lxc-wait
 src/lxc/legacy/lxc-ls
 src/lxc/lxc-user-nic
+src/lxc/version.h
 
 src/python-lxc/build/
 src/python-lxc/lxc/__pycache__/

configure.ac

@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ AC_INIT([lxc], [lxc_version])
 AC_SUBST(LXC_VERSION_BASE, lxc_version_base)
 AC_SUBST(LXC_VERSION_BETA, lxc_version_beta)
 
+AC_SUBST([LXC_VERSION_MAJOR], [lxc_version_major])
+AC_SUBST([LXC_VERSION_MINOR], [lxc_version_minor])
+AC_SUBST([LXC_VERSION_MICRO], [lxc_version_micro])
+AC_SUBST([LXC_VERSION], [lxc_version])
+
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([configure.ac])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([config])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([src/config.h])
@@ -554,7 +559,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_FILES([
 	src/lxc/lxc-start-ephemeral
 	src/lxc/legacy/lxc-ls
 	src/lxc/lxc.functions
-
+	src/lxc/version.h
 	src/python-lxc/Makefile
 
 	src/lua-lxc/Makefile

src/lxc/version.h → src/lxc/version.h.in

@@ -20,8 +20,13 @@
  * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
  * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
  */
-#ifndef _version_h
-#define _version_h
+#ifndef _VERSION_H
+#define _VERSION_H
+
+#define LXC_VERSION_MAJOR @LXC_VERSION_MAJOR@
+#define LXC_VERSION_MINOR @LXC_VERSION_MINOR@
+#define LXC_VERSION_MICRO @LXC_VERSION_MICRO@
+#define LXC_VERSION "@LXC_VERSION@"
 
 /*
  * Returns the version number of the library