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[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

branch: master
commit 2e0cfea60f8bf8bf4ce916b5be14cc5493269b75
Author: Mohammad Akhlaghi <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon May 30 12:43:38 2016 +0900

    configure is now a prerequisite of .version
    
    Following `git-version-gen''s suggestion, until now `.version' did not
    depend on anything. So the only way to update it was to delete it and run
    `make'. This manual operation could cause confusion if forgotten (for
    example in unofficial releases). So now `.version' depends on the
    `configure' script. Any time `configure' is rebuilt (and thus the version
    is updated), the `.version' file is also updated.
---
 Makefile.am |   18 +++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index b673aed..02131e4 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -26,17 +26,25 @@
 ## Sources to be run before everything else
 ## ========================================
 ##
-## The .version file is managed by the by the following file to
-## automatically generate the version:
+## The .version file is created from the $(VERSION) variable which was
+## defined by the git-version-gen script at:
 ##
 ##    bootstrapped/build-aux/git-version-gen
 ##
-## we want it to be created before anything else after running `make',
-## `make check', or `make install', see the "Built sources" section of the
+## we want it to be created before anything else when running `make', `make
+## check', or `make install', see the "Built sources" section of the
 ## AUTOMAKE manual and the git-version-gen script comments for more
 ## information.
+##
+## Note that contrary to what is proposed by git-version-gen, here the
+## `.version' file's creation depends on the `configure' script, so anytime
+## a the VERSION variable is updated, `.version' is also updated. During
+## development of the main functionality of Gnuastro (utilities and
+## libraries), the `configure' script is rarely updated, so `.version' will
+## not be rebuilt and thus it won't harm the speed of testing.
 BUILT_SOURCES = $(top_srcdir)/.version
-$(top_srcdir)/.version:; echo $(VERSION) > address@hidden && mv address@hidden 
$@
+$(top_srcdir)/.version: $(top_srcdir)/configure
+       echo $(VERSION) > address@hidden && mv address@hidden $@
 dist-hook:; echo $(VERSION) > $(distdir)/.tarball-version