[Lazarus] embed git version info

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2013-03-28 12:00, Xiangrong Fang wrote:
> WriteLn('COMPILED: ' + {$I %DATE%});
> 
> i.e. the $I above returned a string without trying to parse it.


It just returns a string.... string + string = string. Hence the
Writeln() statements works. As I said in another reply. The compiler has
some special cases regarding %xxx% format, and for everything else it
returns an environment variable as a string.


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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