From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: -DVERSION for emacsclient Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:27:44 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164256087 1351 80.91.229.2 (23 Nov 2006 04:28:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:28:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 23 05:28:01 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 1Gn6Bl-0006Hv-QV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:27:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gn6Bl-0004qc-BS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:27:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gn6BX-0004ns-Rr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:27:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gn6BW-0004mo-H2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:27:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gn6BW-0004mV-5B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:27:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gn6BV-0002p4-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:27:38 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-206-129.inter.net.il [84.228.206.129]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id GIN10387 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:27:35 +0200 (IST) Original-To: "Juanma Barranquero" In-reply-to: (lekktu@gmail.com) 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:62714 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 03:02:38 +0100 > From: "Juanma Barranquero" > > Is there any portable way to extract the version number from > lisp/version.el when executing lib-src/makefile (or when running > nt/configure.bat)? You mean more portable than this: sed -n -e '/(defconst emacs-version/ s/^[^"]*\("[^"]*"\).*/\1/p' version.el ? > The other option is hardcoding the version number in configure.bat or > lib-src/Makefile.w32-in, as it is hardcoded now on nt/emacs.rc. But > then admin/admin.el should have to be modified, shouldn't it? 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). Or we could craft an equivalent command using native Windows tools.