Re: Computed version number in configure.ac

[Akim Demaille]

| Hello,
| In my configure.ac I get the version number from the NEWS file, this used
| to work but does not anymore with autoconf-2.53.
| 
| I used :
| 
| AC_INIT([src/gliv.c])
| read version < $srcdir/NEWS
| AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([gliv], [$version])
| 
| but now, with
| 
| AC_INIT([gliv], [$(head -n 1 NEWS)])
| 
| autoconf complains the version arg is not a litteral.
| 
| So here is my question :
| How to use a computed version number in configure.ac ?

If I were you, I would not try to do that, but that's only my opinion,
no flamewar needed.

/tmp % cat configure.ac                                          nostromo 18:42
AC_INIT([Foo], esyscmd([cat version | tr -d '\n']), address@hidden)
/tmp % autoconf                                                  nostromo 18:42
/tmp % ./configure --version                                     nostromo 18:42
Foo configure Dead broken.
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