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Re: library version number
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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Re: library version number |
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Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:36:59 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Hello Philip,
* Philip Herron wrote on Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:33:31AM CEST:
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> Just wondering it would be nice if i could in my configure.ac check for
> the library version.
You already got answers on how to maybe do that. Here's one about why
you shouldn't: Autoconf is all about testing features. So if you need
some feature in a library, test for that feature. If you want to avoid
some specific bug in one version of the library, just test for presence
of that very bug. Distributors might have fixed the bug without
adjusting the version the way your configure script expects.
Cheers,
Ralf