Patrick Welche <prlw1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There is a potential pitfall when grabbing autoconf via CVS from the > git repository which is that VERSION is computed by build-aux/git-version-gen > which runs git describe. If you checked out via CVS, git rightly complains > that the checkout isn't a git repository. VERSION is then UNKNOWN, rather > than say 2.61a.265-feef9-dirty. m4_version_prereq([2.57]) eg in local.at > then fails. > > % bin/autoconf --version > autoconf (GNU Autoconf) UNKNOWN Thanks for the report. If you really need to use cvs, you can get by with something like this: echo 2.61a.265-feef9-dirty > .version If enough people care about this (and let us know), then I'll make it work. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
