Re: AC_INIT design bug or automake thinko?

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello Bruno,

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 02:43:28PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> (Putting the version information into a file of its own, not configure.ac,

... is understandable.

But there is no need to set the version during the run of configure;
it is known when Autoconf runs.  Actually, Autoconf requires that the
version is a literal, not shell variable.

Could you replace your version.sh with version.m4, which would
contain:
m4_define([gettext_version], [1.2.3])
?

Then you would have:
m4_include([version.m4])
AC_INIT([GNU gettext], gettext_version, address@hidden)

Have a nice day,
        Stepan Kasal