Re: -DVERSION for emacsclient

["Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>]

On 11/23/06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> You mean more portable than this:

No, that's about portable enough :-)

> We could require Sed for the Windows build, and then do the above
> (just replace single quotes with double quotes and escape-protect the
> inner double quotes).

I don't really care much one way or the other, but it seems a bit
heavy-handed to require sed just to extract a version number for an
auxiliary tool like emacsclient.

> Or we could craft an equivalent command using
> native Windows tools.

That's what I was originally hoping for. Not very easy to do portably
all the way up from W95/98/98SE/Me, assuming we're still buildable on
these systems.

                    /L/e/k/t/u