Re: Computed version number in configure.ac

[Guillaume Chazarain]

>> Well, I couldn't make esyscmd([head -n 1 NEWS]) work in an AC_INIT arg.
>
> Works here.  What's happening in your case?

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> If I were you, I would not try to do that, but that's only my opinion,
> no flamewar needed.
>
> /tmp % cat configure.ac                                          nostromo 
> 18:42
> AC_INIT([Foo], esyscmd([cat version | tr -d '\n']), address@hidden)
> /tmp % autoconf                                                  nostromo 
> 18:42
> /tmp % ./configure --version                                     nostromo 
> 18:42
> Foo configure Dead broken.

The trailing newline inserted by esyscmd was the problem.
For example,

# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53 for gliv <version number>.

expanded to

# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53 for gliv 1.5.1
.

Now everything works fine.
Thank you all, for your patience.

Guillaume