From b95e9e2dcf8af084365f107229412d88b53c41e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:31:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Don't hard-wire the program's version in configure.in, but
 use the VERSION file instead.  Stolen from gnupg.

---
 VERSION      | 1 +
 configure    | 2 +-
 configure.in | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 VERSION

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1c2bbb1c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0.94.13
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index dbaa4f6c3..daa5da71a 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ fi
 
 PACKAGE=mutt
 
-VERSION=0.94.13
+VERSION=`cat $srcdir/VERSION`
 
 if test "`cd $srcdir && pwd`" != "`pwd`" && test -f $srcdir/config.status; then
   { echo "configure: error: source directory already configured; run "make distclean" there first" 1>&2; exit 1; }
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index d5f34b06f..ba8aa18ee 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ dnl $Id$
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 AC_INIT(mutt.h)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(mutt, 0.94.13)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(mutt, `cat $srcdir/VERSION`)
 
 ALL_LINGUAS="de ru it"
 
-- 
2.40.0