Re: XForms: autoconf/automake patch

From: Angus Leeming (angus.leeming@btopenworld.com)
Date: Thu Apr 24 2003 - 13:37:37 EDT

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    # To subscribers of the xforms list from Angus Leeming <angus.leeming@btopenworld.com> :

    On Thursday 24 April 2003 4:20 pm, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
    > >>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <angus.leeming@btopenworld.com> writes:
    >
    > Angus> Rather than parse VERSION, why not construct it. Attached seems
    > Angus> to do the job. Comments?
    > Do you really need to assign explicitly the variable VERSION?

    No.

    > You will need to add things to lib/include/Makefile.am, I guess.
    Done.

    > Angus> Of course, it will cause a re-compilation of the source tree
    > Angus> anytime autogen.sh is run.
    > Are you sure? I think that configure makes sure this does not happen
    > when the file is not changed.

    It appears that you are wrong about this. The timestamp changes each time I
    run configure.

    Perhaps we could have AAA-tmp.h.in which generates AAA-tmp.h and then copy
    this to AAA.h only if the two files differ?

    It seems a little convoluted however.

    Angus

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