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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Use modern AC_INIT in configure.in
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 23:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140708235348.GN8039@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOrDmAr2rwO1sX=UefqtggpKXLYmmwV+f3j_PhR1UQiJzg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 08:38:30AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> The old one has
> 
> changequote(,)dnl
> BFD_VERSION=`${srcdir}/../bfd/configure --version | sed -n -e '1s,.* ,,p'`
> changequote([,])dnl
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(ld, ${BFD_VERSION})
> 
> When BFD_VERSION is changed, we only need to regenerate
> configure in bfd.  Can we make it to work with the new scheme?

You can, by using m4_esyscmd to extract the version from
bfd/configure.ac to set versions in other configure dirs, but that way
is a bit messy.  I wrote it like that at first, then saw that the
automake docs recommend using an m4 version file.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

      reply	other threads:[~2014-07-08 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-04  3:24 Alan Modra
2014-07-04  3:58 ` Alan Modra
2014-07-08 15:38 ` H.J. Lu
2014-07-08 23:54   ` Alan Modra [this message]

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