>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom> My current thinking is that we would name the installed version Tom> and the install directories after the "install version". For Tom> anything in the 1.5 series (1.5.1, 1.5-p1, 1.5c, whatever), this Tom> would be "1.5". Then we would guarantee that for a given Tom> "install version" we would only do bug fixes. I decided not to do this. It is simpler and easier to understand if we simply always add the version number. Tom> I think the rebuild rule problem is even worse if autoconf is Tom> versioned. Where will the version info come from? I looked at this some more. The info can simply come from autoconf itself. Automake puts `$(AUTOCONF)' into the Makefile.in, and this is computed in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. So if we can get the autoconf version at configure time we can easily handle this. Tom
