With AC_DEFINE I can define cpp definitions. Is that legal/supposed-to to access the underlying var in configure.ac? Same for AC_SUBST.
E.g.: ## configure.ac AC_INIT([foo], [1.0]) ## AC_DEFINE: PACKAGE_TARNAME/VERSION... AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([$PACKAGE_TARNAME], [$PACKAGE_VERSION]) ## eof configure.ac BTW: Is the version of AC_INIT meant to be the package version or that of configure.ac? (I am wondering that AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE doesn't use PACKAGE_* by default.) /FAU