Re: autoconf from cvs

[Alexander Kahl]

I have an equal problem with autoconf from git. Like Patrick I got autoconf 
(GNU Autoconf) UNKNOWN and because of that other software projects won't 
compile.

I tried echo 2.61a.2.61a.299-9066 > .version in autoconf dir but autoconf 
doesn't seem to use it (maybe I did something wrong).


Best regards,
Alex


Patrick Welche <address@hidden> wrote:
>> There is a potential pitfall when grabbing autoconf via CVS from the
>> git repository which is that VERSION is computed by build-aux/git-version-gen
>> which runs git describe. If you checked out via CVS, git rightly complains
>> that the checkout isn't a git repository. VERSION is then UNKNOWN, rather
>> than say 2.61a.265-feef9-dirty. m4_version_prereq([2.57]) eg in local.at
>> then fails.
>>
>> % bin/autoconf --version
>> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) UNKNOWN

> Thanks for the report.
> If you really need to use cvs, you can get by
> with something like this:

> echo 2.61a.265-feef9-dirty > .version

> If enough people care about this (and let us know),
> then I'll make it work.

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