Re: Strategy to specify major, minor, and patch versions

[Zé]

On 08/28/2014 11:28 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Untested:
>
> # M4 macros, for use during autoconf time...
> m4_define([MAJOR_VERSION], [1])
> m4_define([MINOR_VERSION], [0])
> m4_define([PATCH_VERSION], [0])
> AC_INIT([foo], MAJOR_VERSION.MINOR_VERSION.PATCH_VERSION)

Thanks for providing an example.  It appears to have worked.  I've used 
it in a project with the addition of a couple of very minor tweaks.

The configure.in file starts off with this:

# Autoconf script

AC_PREREQ(2.61)

m4_define([MAJOR_VERSION], [1])
m4_define([MINOR_VERSION], [0])
m4_define([PATCH_VERSION], [0])

AC_INIT(foo,[MAJOR_VERSION.MINOR_VERSION.PATCH_VERSION])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(foo,[MAJOR_VERSION.MINOR_VERSION.PATCH_VERSION])

# (...)

Two questiosn:

1) is there anything wrong with the way this script has been set?

2) I realize this is a very basic question, but here it goes: is there a 
way to list the MAJOR_VERSION, MINOR_VERSION and PATCH_VERSION variables 
in the config.h file?


Thanks,
Zé