Patrick Welche writes: > I thought the following looked nice: > > NETATALK_VERSION=`cat $srcdir/VERSION` > AC_INIT(netatalk, ${NETATALK_VERSION},... > > but then > > configure.in:5: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: ${NETATALK_VERSION} > > Is there a way round it? AC_INIT(netatalk, esyscmd([cat VERSION])) -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@xxxxxxx