On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Joel E. Denny wrote:
> Maybe the top-level Makefile.am should declare .version to depend on
> configure so they don't get out of sync.
I'm considering pushing the following patch to Bison. I'll wait a little
for comments because this area seems a little controversial.
By
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Eric Blake wrote:
> The better way to handle this is to replace any previous dependence on
> configure.ac with a dependence on .version rather than configure; this is
> already documented in git-version-gen. For an example, that is how
> autoconf does it in man/Makefile.am.
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[adding bug-gnulib, as this revisits the issue recently discussed about
how to track version information in builds]
According to Joel E. Denny on 7/26/2008 11:36 PM:
| I just pushed this change to Bison to fix dependents of PACKAGE_VERSION.
| Because
