From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: -DVERSION for emacsclient Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:10:00 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164388303 19212 80.91.229.2 (24 Nov 2006 17:11:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 24 18:11:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GneaI-0007kg-TR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:11:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GneaI-0001ym-AK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:11:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gnea4-0001vU-A1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:11:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gnea1-0001n3-9v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:11:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gnea1-0001ml-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:11:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.99.153.30] (helo=seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GneZx-00073t-UA; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:11:10 -0500 Original-Received: from seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net.turtle-trading.net (seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id kAOHA0Lo030867; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:10:00 +0100 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:27:44 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62720 Archived-At: Hi Eli, Eli Zaretskii writes: > You mean more portable than this: > > sed -n -e '/(defconst emacs-version/ s/^[^"]*\("[^"]*"\).*/\1/p' version.el Wouldn't it be possible to make emacsclient depend on the Emacs binary (if it isn't already) and use an Elisp script and "emacs -batch" to put the value of emacs-version into emacsclient.c? As an alternative, if you don't want to make that a strong dependency, test if the Emacs binary is present and only call the Elisp script in the common case that it has been made. Just a thought, benny