On 08/27/2014 03:52 AM, Zé wrote: > What's the best way to set up an autoconf project so that the major, > minor and patch version numbers are made available to the entire package > (automake and source code) and used to define the VERSION and > PACKAGE_VERSION variables? Here's how libvirt does it: AC_INIT([libvirt], [1.2.8], [libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx], [], [http://libvirt.org]) # First extract pieces from the version number string LIBVIRT_MAJOR_VERSION=`echo $VERSION | awk -F. '{print $1}'` LIBVIRT_MINOR_VERSION=`echo $VERSION | awk -F. '{print $2}'` LIBVIRT_MICRO_VERSION=`echo $VERSION | awk -F. '{print $3}'` LIBVIRT_VERSION=$LIBVIRT_MAJOR_VERSION.$LIBVIRT_MINOR_VERSION.$LIBVIRT_MICRO_VERSION$LIBVIRT_MICRO_VERSION_SUFFIX LIBVIRT_VERSION_NUMBER=`expr $LIBVIRT_MAJOR_VERSION \* 1000000 + $LIBVIRT_MINOR_VERSION \* 1000 + $LIBVIRT_MICRO_VERSION` AGE=`expr $LIBVIRT_MAJOR_VERSION '*' 1000 + $LIBVIRT_MINOR_VERSION` REVISION=$LIBVIRT_MICRO_VERSION CURRENT=`expr $LIBVIRT_SONUM + $AGE` LIBVIRT_VERSION_INFO=$CURRENT:$REVISION:$AGE AC_SUBST([LIBVIRT_MAJOR_VERSION]) AC_SUBST([LIBVIRT_MINOR_VERSION]) AC_SUBST([LIBVIRT_MICRO_VERSION]) AC_SUBST([LIBVIRT_SONUM]) AC_SUBST([LIBVIRT_VERSION]) AC_SUBST([LIBVIRT_VERSION_INFO]) AC_SUBST([LIBVIRT_VERSION_NUMBER]) which may be more than what you needed, but sure seems to fit the bill. That took the 'AC_INIT is canonical, derive everything else from it' approach. It should also be possible to do the reverse: declare m4 macros and shell variables up front for major/minor/patch, then generate AC_INIT by calling those macros rather than open-coding the version. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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