ac_set_versionlevel

If the VERSION is ommitted, shellvar $VERSION is used as defined by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE's second argument.

The versionlevel is the numeric representation of the given version string, thereby assuming the inputversion is a string with (maximal) three decimal numbers seperated by "."-dots. A "-patch" adds a percent.

Typical usage:

 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(mypkg,4.12.3)
 AC_SET_VERSIONLEVEL(MYPKG_VERSION)
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(MYPKG_VERSION, $MYPKG_VERSION, [package version])

The version code has three digits per part which I feel is the most natural encoding - it makes it easier to be printf'd anyway.

Examples:

       3.0-beta1     3000001
       3.1           3010000
       3.11          3110000
       3.11-dirpatch 3111000
       3.11-patch6   3110006
       2.2.18        2020018
       2.0.112       2000112
       2.4.2         2040002
       2.4.2-pre     2040003
       2.4.2-pre5    2040003
       5.0-build125  5000125
       5.0           5000000
       0.30.17       30017

AC_DEFUN([AC_SET_VERSIONLEVEL],
[dnl
m4_pushdef(LVL, $1_LEVEL)
m4_pushdef(MJR, $1_MAJOR)
m4_pushdef(MNR, $1_MINOR)
m4_pushdef(MCR, $1_MICRO)
LVL=`echo ifelse($2, , $VERSION, $2) | sed -e 's:[[A-Z-]]*:.:g' -e 's:[[^0-9.]]::g' -e 's:[[.]]*:.:g' -e 's:^[[.]]*::'`
AC_MSG_CHECKING( $1 versionlevel $LVL)
case $LVL in
 *.*.*.|*.*.*.*|*.*.*) :
 MJR=`echo $LVL`
 MNR=`echo $MJR | sed -e 's/[[^.]]*[[.]]//'`
 MCR=`echo $MNR | sed -e 's/[[^.]]*[[.]]//'`
 MJR=`echo $MJR | sed -e 's/[[.]].*//'`
 MNR=`echo $MNR | sed -e 's/[[.]].*//'`
 MCR=`echo $MCR | sed -e 's/[[.]].*//'`
 ;;
 *.*.|*.*) :
 MJR=`echo $LVL`
 MNR=`echo $MJR | sed -e 's/[[^.]]*[[.]]//'`
 MJR=`echo $MJR | sed -e 's/[[.]].*//'`
 MNR=`echo $MNR | sed -e 's/[[.]].*//'`
 MCR=0
 ;;
 *.) :
 MJR=0
 MNR=`echo $LVL`
 MNR=`echo $MNR | sed -e 's/[[.]].*//'`
 MCR=0
 ;;
esac
# we trust sed greedy-match backtracking to extract the last three digits from each part, forming a nine-digit
$1=`echo 000$MJR.000$MNR.000$MCR | sed -e 's:\\(...\\)[[.]][[^.]]*\\((...\\))[[.]][[^.*]]\\((...\\)):\\1\\2\\3 -e 's:^0*::''
AC_MSG_RESULT($[$1] ($MJR,$MNR,$MCR)
dnl AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED( $1, $[$1], ifelse( $3, , $PACKAGE versionlevel, $3))
m4_popdef(MCR)
m4_popdef(MNR)
m4_popdef(MJR)
m4_popdef(LVL)
])

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