Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] SVN version number in the documentation?
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 09:40:36 -0700
On Apr 6, 2011, at 9:34 AM, sfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=36498
> 
> User: sfisher
> Date: 2011/04/06 09:34 AM
> 
> Log:
> From Peter via bug #5798: Don't try to run svnversion if it isn't
> executable.

Presumably that's "not present or not executable":

$ man test

	...

     -x file       True if file exists and is executable.  True indicates only
                   that the execute flag is on.  If file is a directory, true
                   indicates that file can be searched.

	...

I suspect their problem was that they didn't have Subversion installed on the build machine, so there was no svnversion command available:

> Our QA build system detected following wanning:
> * QA Notice: command not found:
> * 
> *      /bin/bash: line 27: svnversion: command not found

The User's Guide says "36497 for Wireshark 1.5"; should we do as we do for the programs, and not bother giving the SVN version number if you're not building from SVN?