Re: AC_INIT receiving PACKAGE_VERSION from outside

[Stepan Kasal]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 09:22:32AM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote:
> Is there a chance this will be eventually fixed?

No, it's a design decision.  The packed tarball contains sources of
a certain fixed version.

You are free to make patches to autoconf, and when you have something,
you can try to convince the developers...

Stepan