* Carsten Heinrici wrote on Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:00:06PM CET: > why not including just another m4 file which defines the version number? > example: That is a possibility. > ./version.m4 > m4_define([VERSION_NUMBER],[1.2.3]) > > ./package/configure.ac > m4_include([../version.m4]) > AC_INIT([package],VERSION_NUMBER) FWIW, it is a bit safer wrt. m4 quoting to use something like AC_INIT([package], m4_defn([VERSION_NUMBER]) (unfortunately, normal quoting won't work here). Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
