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[PATCH gnumach] Inline version.m4 into configure.ac


From: Guillem Jover
Subject: [PATCH gnumach] Inline version.m4 into configure.ac
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:49:25 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Hi!

On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 00:13:51 +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> In GNU Mach, we have a version.m4 where these fields are defined one and
> for all.  (I argue that a package's version definition does not really
> belong into a generic, otherwise version-agnostic configuration system's
> file.)  (But on the other hand, *version*.m4 is likely not the most
> suitable name for defining a package's name.)  (Are we bike-shedding
> yet?)

I introduced that file because at the time the source tree had multiple
configure.in, so sharing the definitions seemed saner. But then this
could have been merged back once the build system was converted to a
single configure.ac. The attached patch does just that.

Regarding the definition of the version, I tend to agree, and I'd say
it should be generated automatically from the nearest git tag (but
then gnumach does not have any tags right now :). There's such a script
in gnulib (git-version-gen) that could be used, if GPL3+ would be an
issue I implemented a similar one but GPL2+ for dpkg (get-version)
some time ago.

thanks,
guillem

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