How about
AC_INIT([LilyPond],m4_esyscmd(echo `VERSION.AC'))
The documentation says it is permissible to use m4_esyscmd as part of the
package information strings in AC_INIT.
Carl
On 1/8/20, 11:49 AM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of d...@gnu.org"
<lilypond-devel-bounces+c_sorensen=byu....@gnu.org on behalf of d...@gnu.org>
wrote:
On 2020/01/08 18:03:36, dak wrote:
> >
> > But re-reading your question, you're maybe proposing to have a file
that is
> > included by Autoconf when generating configure? I think that's not
possible
> with
> > the documented functionality of Autoconf because you can only do
very few
> things
> > before calling AC_INIT. I've not come across something that can read
a file in
> > that situation.
> Shouldn't
> AC_INIT([LilyPond], include(`VERSION.AC'),
mailto:[bug-lilyp...@gnu.org],
> [lilypond], [http://lilypond.org/])
> work?
Hm, doesn't work. Looks like I need to look more closely at what
autoconf does.
https://codereview.appspot.com/549350043/
