Re: [Autogen-users] [Help-autogen] Integration of autogen with autoconf

[Bruce Korb]

Geoff Quelch wrote:
> 
> Is there a web site anywhere that gives tips/suggestions for integrating
> autogen with autoconf. Neither of these tools' web sites has anything on
> this.
> One fairly trivial example would be to the version string. It is set in
> configure.in for autoconf and in the defs file for autogen, where they
> really are the same value.
> Thanks.

For AutoGen, I solved this problem by putting it into a separate
script that is sourced both by configure.in and in AutoGen's 
definition files, thus:

>   version = `
>     if test -z "$top_srcdir" || test ! -d "$top_srcdir"; then
>         top_srcdir=..
>     fi
>     if test ! -f $top_srcdir/VERSION ; then
>         echo "error $top_srcdir/VERSION file missing" >&2
>         kill -2 ${AG_pid}
>         exit 1
>     fi
>     . $top_srcdir/VERSION > /dev/null
>     echo $AG_VERSION`;

But, you are also right, I should add a FAQ to AutoGen
with such hints and suggestions.  Thanks! - Bruce