version.c tries to centralize all variables conveying version information,
but there's still an issue with the BUILD_* variables which are only
passed to haproxy.o and are only updated when that one is rebuilt. This
is not very logical given that we can end up with values there which
contradict info from version.c.
Better move all of these to version.c which is systematically rebuilt.
Most of these variables only end up as string concatenation at the
moment. Some of them are even duplicated. In version.c we now have one
variable (or constant) for each of them and haproxy.c references them
in messages. This is much more logical and easier to maintain in a
consistent state.
The patch looks a bit large but it really only moves the ifdefed string
assignment from one file to another, placing them into variables.
Since we've seen clang emit bad code when the address sanitizer is enabled
at -O2, better clearly report it in the version output. It is detected both
for clang and gcc (both tested with and without).
For an unknown reason in commit bb1b63c079 I placed the compiler version
output in haproxy.c instead of version.c. Better have it in version.c which
is more suitable to this sort of things.
It currently is not possible to figure the exact haproxy version from a
core file for the sole reason that the version is stored into a const
string and as such ends up in the .text section that is not part of a
core file. By turning them into variables we move them to the data
section and they appear in core files. In order to help finding them,
we just prepend an extra variable in front of them and we're able to
immediately spot the version strings from a core file:
$ strings core | fgrep -A2 'HAProxy version'
HAProxy version follows
2.1-dev2-e0f48a-88
2019/10/15
(These are haproxy_version and haproxy_date respectively). This may be
backported to 2.0 since this part is not support to impact anything but
the developer's time spent debugging.
While testing fixes, it's sometimes confusing to rebuild only one C file
(e.g. a mux) and not to have the correct commit ID reported in "haproxy -v"
nor on the stats page.
This patch adds a new "version.c" file which is always rebuilt. It's
very small and contains only 3 variables derived from the various
version strings. These variables are used instead of the macros at the
few places showing the version. This way the output version of the
running code is always correct for the parts that were rebuilt.
