Re: syncing Emacs from sources maintained elsewhere

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Paul Eggert wrote on Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 09:38:58PM CET:
> On 01/23/2011 04:39 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >  . Why are PACKAGE and VERSION needed, and where are they used?
> 
> That's another Automake thing.  PACKAGE should be "emacs",
> and VERSION "24.0.50".  VERSION is used in some auxiliary
> programs like lib-src/etags.c.  Emacs doesn't use PACKAGE
> anywhere now, but perhaps it will someday.

You can use the Automake option 'no-define' to avoid these two
being AC_DEFINEd.

Cheers,
Ralf