On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:59:13PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
: I've previously tried to convince people of this as well, to no avail.
: Look at what you get from configure --version!
How about a patch like this?
2001-03-27 Lars J. Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_INIT_VERSION): Improved version information string
for `configure --version'.
Index: acgeneral.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/autoconf/acgeneral.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.704
diff -u -r1.704 acgeneral.m4
--- acgeneral.m4 2001/03/19 13:32:35 1.704
+++ acgeneral.m4 2001/03/27 16:15:21
@@ -1371,7 +1371,7 @@
cat <<\EOF])dnl
m4_ifset([AC_PACKAGE_STRING],
[m4_divert_text([VERSION_BEGIN],
- [configure (AC_PACKAGE_STRING) AC_ACVERSION])])
+ [AC_PACKAGE_STRING configure, by GNU Autoconf
+AC_ACVERSION])])
m4_divert_text([VERSION_END],
[EOF
exit 0
