Re: Tramp as ELPA package

[Andreas Schwab]

On Aug 25 2018, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index 4fd0e0d0..f1f033cd 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -24,9 +24,12 @@
>  # incompatible changes (with quotation) have appeared since 2.50.
>  AC_PREREQ([2.50])
>  
> -# Initialize configure script.  This is the only point Tramp revision
> +# Initialize configure script.  The only place where Tramp's version
> +# is kept is in lisp/tramp.el's "Version:" header.
>  # needs to be set.
> -AC_INIT([Tramp], [2.4.0], address@hidden)
> +# NOTE: the main purpose of the `regexp` call is to strip the final LF.
> +define([TRAMP_VERSION], regexp(esyscmd([sed -n -e 's/^;; Version: *//p' 
> lisp/tramp.el]), [[-a-z0-9.]*], [\&]))
> +AC_INIT([Tramp], TRAMP_VERSION, address@hidden)
>  AC_MSG_NOTICE([$PACKAGE_STRING])

You need to add a rule to regenerate configure when tramp.el changes.

Andreas.

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