Re: [SPAM] Re: texinfo 5.00 -> 5.0 -> 4.13.90 html output

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 05:48:55PM -0800, Karl Berry wrote:
>     I added a slightly derogatory comment about this $hardcoded_version...
> 
> It's ok by me, though I may tinker with the wording :).

Sadly, there is no derogatory comment anymore...

> But, it makes me think of a possible way to actually get it from
> configure.ac.  In the case of .pl, read ../configure.ac, look for the
> line starting with /^AC_INIT/, grab the second word, remove the
> brackets, and voila ... not sure if that is more or less ugly than
> $hardcoding though :).

I used something along.  There is still an hardcoded string in case 
everything else failed, I set it to 
  $hardcoded_version = "4.13.90-hardcoded" 
to be able to know when the extraction from configure.ac failed.

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Pat