| Hello, | In my configure.ac I get the version number from the NEWS file, this used | to work but does not anymore with autoconf-2.53. | | I used : | | AC_INIT([src/gliv.c]) | read version < $srcdir/NEWS | AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([gliv], [$version]) | | but now, with | | AC_INIT([gliv], [$(head -n 1 NEWS)]) | | autoconf complains the version arg is not a litteral. | | So here is my question : | How to use a computed version number in configure.ac ?
If I were you, I would not try to do that, but that's only my opinion, no flamewar needed. /tmp % cat configure.ac nostromo 18:42 AC_INIT([Foo], esyscmd([cat version | tr -d '\n']), [bug@devnull]) /tmp % autoconf nostromo 18:42 /tmp % ./configure --version nostromo 18:42 Foo configure Dead broken. generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53a Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This configure script is free software; the Free Software Foundation gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
