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Re: distributing files generated by configure
- To: Raja R Harinath <harinath at cs dot umn dot edu>, automake at gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: distributing files generated by configure
- From: "Derek R. Price" <derek dot price at openavenue dot com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 12:09:17 -0500
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"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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