* Carsten Heinrici wrote on Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:00:06PM CET:
> why not including just another m4 file which defines the version number?
> example:

That is a possibility.

> ./version.m4
>   m4_define([VERSION_NUMBER],[1.2.3])
> 
> ./package/configure.ac
>   m4_include([../version.m4])
>   AC_INIT([package],VERSION_NUMBER)

FWIW, it is a bit safer wrt. m4 quoting to use something like
   AC_INIT([package], m4_defn([VERSION_NUMBER])

(unfortunately, normal quoting won't work here).

Cheers,
Ralf


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