Move the version string out of configure.ac.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/md2man b/md2man
index ef4e58d6..992d7320 100755
--- a/md2man
+++ b/md2man
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ def main():
         env_subs['VERSION'] = '1.0.0'
         env_subs['libdir'] = '/usr'
     else:
-        for fn in (fi.srcdir + 'NEWS.md', 'Makefile'):
+        for fn in (fi.srcdir + 'version.h', 'Makefile'):
             try:
                 st = os.lstat(fn)
             except:
@@ -101,6 +101,11 @@ def main():
             if not fi.mtime:
                 fi.mtime = st.st_mtime
 
+        with open(fi.srcdir + 'version.h', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as fh:
+            txt = fh.read()
+        m = re.search(r'"(.+?)"', txt)
+        env_subs['VERSION'] = m.group(1)
+
         with open('Makefile', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as fh:
             for line in fh:
                 m = re.match(r'^(\w+)=(.+)', line)
@@ -112,7 +117,7 @@ def main():
                 while re.search(r'\$\{', val):
                     val = re.sub(r'\$\{(\w+)\}', lambda m: env_subs[m.group(1)], val)
                 env_subs[var] = val
-                if var == 'VERSION':
+                if var == 'srcdir':
                     break
 
     with open(fi.fn, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as fh: