Re: Autoconf caches AC_INIT arguments

2012-05-23 Thread Bert Wesarg
Hi, On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > The forthcoming Automake release is about to break the means I have been > using to automatically version my package (without manually editing > configure.ac) for the past 9 years.  I am told to use m4 code in the AC_INIT > arguments i

Re: Autoconf caches AC_INIT arguments

2012-05-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Hi Bob. On 05/23/2012 02:17 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: The forthcoming Automake release is about to break the means I have been using to automatically version my package (without manually editing configure.ac) for the past 9 years. I smell a misu

Re: Autoconf caches AC_INIT arguments

2012-05-23 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 04:14:00PM +0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hi Bob. > > On 05/23/2012 02:17 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > The forthcoming Automake release is about to break the means I have been > > using to automatically version my package (without manually editing > > configure.ac) for

Re: Autoconf caches AC_INIT arguments

2012-05-23 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Bob. On 05/23/2012 02:17 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > The forthcoming Automake release is about to break the means I have been > using to automatically version my package (without manually editing > configure.ac) for the past 9 years. > I smell a misunderstanding here: Automake 1.12.1 will only

Autoconf caches AC_INIT arguments

2012-05-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
The forthcoming Automake release is about to break the means I have been using to automatically version my package (without manually editing configure.ac) for the past 9 years. I am told to use m4 code in the AC_INIT arguments in order to supply package versioning information. This is what I