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+#include "para.h"
+
+/** \file version.h Macros for printing the version string. */
+
+#include "git-version.h"
+
+/**
+ * Get the raw git version string
+ *
+ * \return The string generated by the GIT-VERSION-GEN script. It is passed
+ * as a preprocessor define during compilation.
+ */
+const char *version_git(void)
+{
+ return GIT_VERSION;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Get the version string for an executable.
+ *
+ * \param pfx The program name (without the leading "para_").
+ *
+ * \return A statically allocated string which contains the program name, the
+ * git version and the codename. It must not be freed by the caller.
+ */
+const char *version_single_line(const char *pfx)
+{
+ static char buf[100];
+ snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1,
+ "para_%s " GIT_VERSION " (" CODENAME ")", pfx);
+ return buf;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Get the full version text.
+ *
+ * \param pfx See \ref version_single_line().
+ *
+ * \return A string containing the same text as returned by \ref
+ * version_single_line(), augmented by additional build information, a
+ * copyright text and the email address of the author.
+ *
+ * Like \ref version_single_line(), this string is stored in a statically
+ * allocated buffer and must not be freed.
+ */
+const char *version_text(const char *pfx)
+{
+ static char buf[512];
+
+ snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, "%s\n"
+ "built: " BUILD_DATE ", " UNAME_RS ", " CC_VERSION "\n"
+ "Copyright (C) 2013 Andre Noll\n"
+ "This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY."
+ " See COPYING for details.\n"
+ "Report bugs to <maan@systemlinux.org>.\n",
+ version_single_line(pfx)
+ );
+ return buf;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Print the version text and exit successfully.
+ *
+ * \param pfx See \ref version_single_line().
+ * \param flag Whether --version was given.
+ *
+ * If \a flag is false, this function does nothing. Otherwise it prints the
+ * full version text as returned by \ref version_text() and exits successfully.
+ */
+void version_handle_flag(const char *pfx, bool flag)
+{
+ if (!flag)
+ return;
+ printf("%s", version_text(pfx));
+ exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+}