[ILUG] CVS question

Mark McLoughlin mark at skynet.ie
Fri Sep 28 12:47:02 IST 2001


On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, John P. Looney wrote:

>  Can you have a variable of some sort in a CVS-managed file, that gets
> changed depending on the tag or branch ? As in, something like;
>
>  PACKAGE_VERSION=${RTAG_VERSION}
>
>  in a Makefile, or the like.

	in configure.in

	RCS_TAG="$Name$"

	and then a bit of jiggerry-pokery with RCS_TAG and then an
AC_SUBST looks like it might do the trick...

	hmmm, thats useful

Good Luck,
Mark.





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