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Re: [RFC] patch libffi autoconversion
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, andreas tobler wrote:
> >>>+AC_INIT([libffi], [3.5], [http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/])
> >>
> >>Isn't zero-argument AC_INIT the preferred form now?
> >
> > No, the >3 arguments AC_INIT is the preferred form with autoconf-2.5x.
> >
> > You might be mixing it up with AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, which now prefers the 0
> > or 1-argument form.
>
> Then I keep the above try?
You don't hardcode the GCC version number anywhere beyond gcc/version.c
and gcc/doc/include/gcc-common.texi. There are far too many manual
release management steps as is. Ideally we'd only have the version number
and release status in gcc-common.texi and put those in a generated C file
at configuration or build time, combining those with an automatically
updated date to get the version string, so avoiding the need to change
version.c when the version number changes.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk