Allow the user to override the extlinux detected geometry; add online help

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/version.pl b/version.pl
index fa09e40d..39d42a03 100755
--- a/version.pl
+++ b/version.pl
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 use Fcntl;
 
-$vfile = $ARGV[0];
+($vfile, $vout, $def) = $ARGV[0];
 sysopen(VERSION, $vfile, O_RDONLY) or die "$0: Cannot open $vfile\n";
 $version = <VERSION>;
 chomp $version;
@@ -16,10 +16,11 @@ unless ( $version =~ /^([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)$/ ) {
 }
 $vma = $1+0; $vmi = $2+0;
 
-open(VI, "> version.gen") or die "$0: Cannot create version.gen\n";
-print VI "%define VERSION \"$version\"\n";
-print VI "%define VER_MAJOR $vma\n";
-print VI "%define VER_MINOR $vmi\n";
+sysopen(VI, $vout, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC)
+    or die "$0: Cannot create $vout: $!\n";
+print VI "$def VERSION \"$version\"\n";
+print VI "$def VER_MAJOR $vma\n";
+print VI "$def VER_MINOR $vmi\n";
 close(VI);