Re: AC_INIT receiving PACKAGE_VERSION from outside

[Sam Steingold]

> * Bruno Haible <address@hidden> [2005-03-11 16:20:29 +0100]:
>
> Stepan Kasal wrote:
>> > . ./version.sh
>> > AC_INIT(my package, ${myversion})
>> 
>> this solution doesn't work, as AC_INIT expects that it's arguments are
>> known when m4 runs (ie. when configure is created).
>
> But this one works:
>
>   AC_INIT
>   AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(foo.c)
>   . $srcdir/version.sh
>   AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(my package, $VERSION_NUMBER)

Are you _sure_ it works?
I think that all PACKAGE_* variables are completely processed by the end
of AC_INIT, so whatever you do with them in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is
irrelevant.
Specifically, the code above will result in empty PACKAGE_* variables.

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