[Xastir] latest from CVS is V 1.9.5 or 1.9.6 or 1.9.7 or 1.9.?

[Lee Bengston]

On 1/18/10, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 08:15:32PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <ka7o at ka7o.net> flavor, containing:
>> I seem to remember a ways back Curt or someone saying that the version
>> information that's compiled into Xastir is changed when the bootstrap.sh
>> script is run. You'll see the updated version in the ./configure output,
>> but only after bootstrap.sh is completed
>
> That is correct.  PACKAGE_VERSION is set by an autoconf macro.  This is set
> in
> configure.ac, from which configure is generated.  The xastir that is built
> will
> show the package version that is present in configure.  To get configure
> updated after a change in configure.ac, you need to run bootstrap.sh.
>
> Every time you update CVS you should always run ./bootstrap.sh before
> running
> configure.  If you don't do that, you run the risk of configure being
> outdated.
> If you really understand the process, you can figure out when bootstrap is
> unnecessary, but it is a fairly quick operation and therefore no harm is
> done
> by doing "./bootstrap.sh" as a routine action immediately after a cvs
> update.
>
> Not doing bootstrap when it *is* necessary is a sure-fire way to get
> confusing
> results.  An old version number is the least of your worries.
>

Fyi, the steps for doing a CVS update, which include bootstrap, are in
the wiki at http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/Notes:CVS.

Lee - K5DAT