Re: PATCH for guile-readline/Makefile.am

[Kevin Ryde]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Though that raises an issue that I haven't figured out how we want to
> handle yet.  As above, autoconf now wants the package name and version
> to be literals.  Hence our trick of using GUILE-VERSION and $PACKAGE
> and $VERSION won't work in this new arrangement.

You can generate a version argument using m4 esyscmd, patsubst,
whatever, if you like.  Autoconf never knows it was an m4 expansion
and not a literal. :)

We get some joy with this in gmp, see GMP_VERSION in acinclude.m4
grepping gmp-h.in.  (All copyright FSF of course, if you want to cut
and paste.)