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

[Shawn H Corey]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:52:05 +0100
Zé <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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])

I'm new to all this but can this be done?

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

AC_INIT(foo,[VERSION])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(foo,[VERSION])


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