Re: Autoconf/Automake is not using version from AC_INIT

[Zack Weinberg]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 7:27 PM Bob Friesenhahn
<bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
>
> AC_SUBST([CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES],["$CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES 
> \$(top_srcdir)/ChangeLog \$(top_srcdir)/version.sh"])

Why did you write it like this instead of

CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES = $(top_srcdir)/ChangeLog $(top_srcdir)/version.sh

directly in Makefile.am?  The way you did it, I don't think Automake
will be aware that the variable exists.

(Also, I thought having configure not be updated when the information
provided to AC_INIT has not changed was what you wanted to happen!)

zw