[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45659] version function: options and return values supported by Matlab

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #17, bug #45659 (project octave):

Markus:

Since the shell script in build-aux just runs a single shell command, I don't
think we need it.  The other scripts that do substitutions are there because
they substitute configuration variables and it is better to put those
variables in a shell script that embed them in the Makefile.  That's also why
those shell scripts are generated at configure time.

What happens with this hg id substitution if you are building from a tar file
distribution?  In that case "hg id" won't give us a version number and we
can't even assume that hg will be available.

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