Re: -DVERSION for emacsclient

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 11/24/06, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> There's one other option: write a short C program that will run during
> the build and extract the version string from version.el, and supply
> that program as part of the Emacs distribution (in the nt/
> subdirectory).
>
> On balance, I think this is the best alternative.

That's trivial to do, but I don't understand why you don't favor just
hardcoding the version into nt/configure.bat or
lib-src/Makefile.w32-in and modifying admin/admin.el to update it...

That's what we currently do with nt/emacs.rc, man/emacs.texi,
lispref/elisp.texi and other files. And the rationale is the same:
for each given release it is a constant, it won't change during
compilation. There's no much point in building a program just to set
that constant.

                   /L/e/k/t/u