Re: [Elrond] Bug#281364: autoconf: configure doesn't show version for --version

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Paul Eggert wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 06:58:07PM CET:
> Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > When the old style of AC_INIT is used (with a single argument
> > that indicates a file to check for) recent Autoconf omits
> > Autoconf version info from the generated configure's --version
> > output.  Using the modern style of AC_INIT fixes the problem.
> 
> As you mentioned, this bug is low priority.  If someone would take the
> time to write a good patch that'd be nice, but in the mean time the
> simplest solution is to use the modern style of AC_INIT.

This is fixed in CVS, and thus will be fixed in 2.60.

Cheers,
Ralf