From 5c9213dfc655e4a81ce5d85eeac29b1ce04e15e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ga=C3=ABtan=20Harter?= <hartergaetan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:15:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH]  Makefile.include: Include VERSION file for release

When downloading the release archive and building an example, the RIOT_VERSION string is not set to "Version 2018.04" but to

    Version: UNKNOWN (builddir: /home/me/Downloads/RIOT-2018.04)

This allows sourcing a global VERSION file to manually set it before releases.
---
 Makefile.include | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Makefile.include b/Makefile.include
index 7736b8dde5..97f897b140 100644
--- a/Makefile.include
+++ b/Makefile.include
@@ -287,6 +287,9 @@ endif
 # Feature test default CFLAGS and LINKFLAGS for the set compiled.
 include $(RIOTMAKE)/cflags.inc.mk
 
+# Include VERSION for releases
+-include $(RIOTBASE)/VERSION
+
 # make the RIOT version available to the program
 ifeq ($(origin RIOT_VERSION), undefined)
   GIT_STRING := $(shell git --git-dir="$(RIOTBASE)/.git" describe --always --abbrev=4 --dirty=-`hostname` 2> /dev/null)