Fetch the version number as created during the build

Author: woodcoder

.github/workflows/release.yaml

@@ -23,14 +23,18 @@ jobs:
           autoreconf -fi
           ./configure
           make dist
+      - name: get version
+        run: |
+          VER=$(cat VERSION)
+          echo "VERSION=$VER" >> $GITHUB_ENV
       - name: create release
         id: create_release
         uses: actions/create-release@latest
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
         with:
           tag_name: ${{ github.ref }}
-          release_name: Release ${{ github.ref }}
+          release_name: Release ${{ env.VERSION }}
           draft: true
           prerelease: true
       - name: upload release
@@ -39,6 +43,6 @@ jobs:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
         with:
           upload_url: ${{ steps.create_release.outputs.upload_url }}
-          asset_path: ./circa-0.1.tar.gz
-          asset_name: circa-0.1.tar.gz
+          asset_path: ./circa-${{ env.VERSION }}.tar.gz
+          asset_name: circa-${{ env.VERSION }}.tar.gz
           asset_content_type: application/gzip

.gitignore

@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ aclocal.m4
 /missing
 /stamp-h1
 /ca
+/VERSION

version.sh

@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@
 
 v=`git describe --abbrev=4 --match="v*" HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo "UNKNOWN"`
 v=`echo "$v" | tr -d "vg" | tr "\-" "."`
+echo $v > VERSION
 printf %s "$v"