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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: -DVERSION for emacsclient
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:21:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uac2g7liz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u4psqn5xb.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:27:44 +0200)

> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:27:44 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 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.

There's one other option: write a short C program that will run during
the build and extract the version string from version.el, and supply
that program as part of the Emacs distribution (in the nt/
subdirectory).

On balance, I think this is the best alternative.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-24 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-23  2:02 -DVERSION for emacsclient Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-23  4:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-23  4:46   ` Lennart Borgman
2006-11-24 18:20     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-23  9:17   ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-24 17:10   ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2006-11-24 18:21   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-11-24 19:28     ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-24 21:13       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-24 23:55         ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-25 10:32           ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-25 13:01             ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-25 13:14               ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-25 13:25                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-25 14:01                   ` Eli Zaretskii

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