Hi all autoconfers, I have a package managed by SVN, and I would like to assign the AC_PACKAGE_VERSION using the current SVN version number. So I hacked up this in configure.in: SVN_VERSION=`./version.sh` AC_INIT(my-fine-package, $SVN_VERSION) where version.sh is a script which will output on stdout the SVN revision number. This as expected *doesn't* work, autoconf indeed complains with: configure.in:8: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: $SVN_VERSION and I get a syntax error when running the autogenerated configure script. The autoconf maual says about AC_INIT: |It is preferable that the arguments of `AC_INIT' be static, i.e., |there should not be any shell computation, but they can be |computed by M4. So my question is: how can I compute with M4 the value to put in the AC_INIT macro (sorry I'm an M4 newbie). Also, do you think is this approach a sane way to assign the AC_PACKAGE_VERSION to an autoconfigured package? Many thanks in advance. Best regards. -- Stefano Sabatini Linux user number 337176 (see http://counter.li.org) _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
