Re: My project can't use `silent-rules'

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 17 May 2009, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> I still owe you large quantities of beer.  However, in order to clarify, I 
> would like to be able to execute configure script shell script code (more 
> like a configure test) and not generate a new configure script just because 
> the version has changed.

As further clarification of "execute configure script shell code", 
this is how I execute an exernal script at the moment to obtain 
package version (as well as shared library versioning).

AC_INIT(magick/magick.h)
. ${srcdir}/version.sh
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE_NAME,"${PACKAGE_VERSION}${PACKAGE_VERSION_ADDENDUM}", 
' ')

The package name, version, tarball naming, and shared library 
versioning information all come from this external script.  All 
working fine since late 2002.

Bob
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