Re: distributing files generated by configure

[Derek R. Price]

"Derek R. Price" wrote:

> Raja R Harinath wrote:
>
> > BTW, why do you need to 'configure' or 'sed' substitute a version
> > number into a .c file -- you already have config.h which defines the
> > symbol 'VERSION' to the version number string.
>
> That's a good point.  They're there because I just converted this source to 
> use
> Automake and I hadn't considered that yet.  version.c is the name of the file 
> where
> the information was kept before Automake.

Although a quick glance at what it would take to switch over reveals that I 
would have
to hook into the application's init functions or rewrite some code to change 
over
since the VERSION is being sed'd dirtectly into a global string.  I don't want 
to
worry about that yet.

Derek

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