Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > AM_INIT_VERSION([$$version], [version=`sh $(top_srcdir)/gen-version`]) > > Here's a slightly different idea. The basic unit of granularity in > makefiles is a target, or a file. The problem we're facing is that the > version is clumped together with all other information inside > config.status, config.h, Makefile files. So let's separate it by > declaring a special file that contains the version (whether that be > .version or another name), say, by some AM_VERSION_FILE macro.
That's a good working hypothesis. If you can add something like this to automake, it would solve ca. 2/3 of the problem. Later on we can see how to accommodate the remaining use-case of a lazily computed version. Bruno
