Mario Limonciello has posted comments on this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/35561 )
Change subject: util/getversion,meson: Add script to allow version info with Meson ......................................................................
Patch Set 1:
This is certainly functional, but I think that the version strings spit out don't make sense for libflashrom. They include letters and are not monotonically increasing, even at tagged releases. So I think some sed magic is going to be needed to make it useful.
Here was what I got out of a test run in pkg-config: "Version: v1.1-rc1-85-ge094fb4"
Quoting https://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html:
The Name, Description and URL fields are purely informational and should be easy to fill in. The Version field is a bit trickier to ensure that it is usable by consumers of the data. pkg-config uses the algorithm from RPM for version comparisons. This works best with a dotted decimal number such as 1.2.3 since letters can cause unexpected results. The number should be monotonically increasing and be as specific as possible in describing the library. > Usually it's sufficient to use the package's version number here since it's easy for consumers to track.