Hi Bob, I managed to find your old message about dynamically computing
package versions for Automake and Autoconf. Some initial comments
follows. I'm adding the Autoconf list in CC:, because I believe this
is an Autoconf issue more than an Automake one.
On 05/20/2012 12:59 AM, Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE_NAME,${PACKAGE_VERSION}${PACKAGE_VERSION_ADDENDUM},
' ')
The reason is because it avoids needing to edit configure.ac (a really stupid
practice)
I agree with this; with today's DVCS, it's very tempting (and IMHO useful)
The script I intend to use to obtain package information is in the
GraphicsMagick repository and produces information gleaned from a
'version.sh' script which has the smarts to produce some obvious
variable names.
echo `./scripts/pkginfo.sh package_bugreport`
Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes:
Actually, it depends. Where and why do you use such
dynamically-computed version number in exactly?
That seems the real question.
My own method is to have:
(1) The primary version number is based on VCS info (this is
obviously
