Eric Blake wrote: > Maybe the solution is to expand automake's list of valid serial lines. > True, it won't help until after the next Automake release, but if there > are enough files in the wild that use '# file.m4 serial n', it seems like > we should make it a valid format rather than forcing all those files to > change.
For information: autopoint-0.18 will use this code to extract the serial version from the first line: sed_extract_serial='s/^#.* serial \([^ ]*\).*/\1/p 1q' existing_serial=`sed -n -e "$sed_extract_serial" < "$1" Bruno
