Re: -DVERSION for emacsclient

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Eli,


Eli Zaretskii writes:
> You mean more portable than this:
>
>   sed -n -e '/(defconst emacs-version/ s/^[^"]*\("[^"]*"\).*/\1/p' version.el

Wouldn't it be possible to make emacsclient depend on the Emacs binary
(if it isn't already) and use an Elisp script and "emacs -batch" to
put the value of emacs-version into emacsclient.c?

As an alternative, if you don't want to make that a strong dependency,
test if the Emacs binary is present and only call the Elisp script in
the common case that it has been made.


Just a thought,
benny