Added back the --version option, and changed acprep so that it hacks on the

generated Makefile to greatly reduce unneeded verbosity.

acprep

@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ if [ -x "$cmd" ]; then
     export LIBTOOLIZE="$cmd"
 fi
 
-cat configure.tmpl | sed "s/%VERSION%/$(git describe)/" > configure.in
+COMMIT=$(git describe --all --long | sed 's/heads\///')
+
+cat configure.tmpl | \
+    sed "s/%VERSION%/$COMMIT/" > configure.in
 
 autoreconf --force --install
 
@@ -142,3 +145,12 @@ fi
 "$HERE/configure" --srcdir="$HERE" CXX="$CXX" \
     CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS" CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS $local_cxxflags" \
     LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS" LIBS="$LIBS" $SWITCHES "$@"
+
+# Alter the Makefile so that it's not nearly so verbose.  This makes finding
+# errors and warnings much easier.
+
+if [ -f Makefile ]; then
+    perl -i -pe 's/^\t(\$\((LIBTOOL|CXX)\).*)/\t\@echo "   " CXX \$\@;$1 > \/dev\/null/;' Makefile
+    perl -i -pe 's/^\tmv -f/\t\@mv -f/;' Makefile
+    perl -i -pe 's/^\t(\$\((.*?)LINK\).*)/\t\@echo "   " LD \$\@;$1 > \/dev\/null/;' Makefile
+fi

option.cc

@@ -149,8 +149,7 @@ void process_environment(const char ** envp, const string& tag,
 }
 
 void process_arguments(int argc, char ** argv, const bool anywhere,
-		       expr::scope_t& scope,
-		       std::list<string>& args)
+		       expr::scope_t& scope, std::list<string>& args)
 {
   for (char ** i = argv; *i; i++) {
     if ((*i)[0] != '-') {

session.cc

@@ -290,6 +290,8 @@ expr::ptr_op_t session_t::lookup(const string& name)
       case 'v':
 	if (! *(p + 1) || std::strcmp(p, "verbose") == 0)
 	  return MAKE_FUNCTOR(session_t::option_verbose);
+	else if (std::strcmp(p, "version") == 0)
+	  return MAKE_FUNCTOR(session_t::option_version);
 	else if (std::strcmp(p, "verify") == 0)
 	  return MAKE_FUNCTOR(session_t::option_verify);
 	break;

session.h

@@ -136,6 +136,26 @@ class session_t : public expr::symbol_scope_t
 
   virtual expr::ptr_op_t lookup(const string& name);
 
+  //
+  // Help options
+  //
+
+  value_t option_version(expr::scope_t&) {
+    std::cout << "Ledger " << ledger::version << ", the command-line accounting tool";
+    std::cout << "\n\nCopyright (c) 2003-2008, John Wiegley.  All rights reserved.\n\n\
+This program is made available under the terms of the BSD Public License.\n\
+See LICENSE file included with the distribution for details and disclaimer.\n";
+    std::cout << "\n(modules: gmp, pcre";
+#if defined(HAVE_EXPAT) || defined(HAVE_XMLPARSE)
+    std::cout << ", xml";
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBOFX
+    std::cout << ", ofx";
+#endif
+    std::cout << ")\n";
+    return NULL_VALUE;
+  }
+
   //
   // Debug options
   //