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Re: How to dinamically set VERSION for AC_INIT


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: How to dinamically set VERSION for AC_INIT
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:56:49 +0100
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Stefano Sabatini <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all autoconfers,
>
> I have a package managed by SVN, and I would like to assign the
> AC_PACKAGE_VERSION using the current SVN version number.
>
> So I hacked up this in configure.in:
>
> SVN_VERSION=`./version.sh`
>
> AC_INIT(my-fine-package, $SVN_VERSION)

AC_INIT(my-fine-package, m4_esyscmd([./version.sh | tr -d '\n']))

Note that you need to manually remove the final newline, unlike command
substitutions m4_esyscmd does not do that for you.

Andreas.

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