On 2013-03-30 14:56 +, Gavin Smith wrote:
> autoconf-generated configure scripts substitute strings like @var@ in files
> like for the value of output variables set in the configure script. Most of
> the time, these will only be used in lines like
>
> var = @var@
>
> in Makefile.in. The Makef
On 04/01/2013 05:07 PM, Borchert, Oliver wrote:
> Eric and Russ,
>
> thanks for the reply. After long testing back and forth I decided to use
> AC_SUBST.
> My solution might not be the cleanest but it works for me.
It may work for you, but it alienates all users that were previously
able to bui
Eric Blake writes:
> If you care about non-GNU make users, then you can't use $(shell). And
> as long as you are going to mandate that your package be built with GNU
> make, then you might as well go all the way and document that fact in
> your README file, as well as:
This is actually an
Eric and Russ,
thanks for the reply. After long testing back and forth I decided to use
AC_SUBST.
My solution might not be the cleanest but it works for me.
In configure.ac I added the following line
AC_SUBST([DOLLAR_SIGN],[$])
In the Makefile.am I changed my previous line into
MY_REVISION=@DO
