Re: Strategy to specify major, minor, and patch versions

[Peter Johansson]

On 08/27/2014 07:52 PM, Zé wrote:
> What's the best way to set up an autoconf project so that the major, 
> minor and patch version numbers are made available to the entire 
> package (automake and source code) and used to define the VERSION and 
> PACKAGE_VERSION variables?

I use this macro in my projects

http://dev.thep.lu.se/yat/svn/trunk/m4/my_version.m4

which has the following docs:

# How to use this file
# ====================
#
# Copy this file to your project, e.g. directory 'm4/'. Aclocal will
# not do that due to limitations.  In 'configure.ac', include this file
# and call 'MY_VERSION_early' before 'AC_INIT'.  After AC_INIT you can
# call MY_VERSION in order to AC_SUBST and AC_DEFINE variables
# FOO_MAJOR_VERSION, FOO_MINOR_VERSION etc., where FOO has been
# replaced with PACKAGE_NAME after appropriate translation (to suit a
# Make variable or PP #define):
#
#   m4_include([m4/my_version.m4])
#   MY_VERSION_early([3],[1],[4],[true])
#   AC_INIT([foo], [my_VERSION])
#   MY_VERSION

Cheers,
Peter