Remove init-package-version.m4

* m4/init-package-version.m4: Remove unused file.  The package
name and version number are now obtained from git-version-gen.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-12-16  Daiki Ueno  <ueno@gnu.org>
+
+       * m4/init-package-version.m4: Remove unused file.  The package
+       name and version number are now obtained from git-version-gen.
+
 2014-12-10  Daiki Ueno  <ueno@gnu.org>
 
        * autogen.sh: Copy intl.m4 and po.m4 to gettext-tools, if Gnulib's

diff --git a/m4/init-package-version.m4 b/m4/init-package-version.m4
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-# init-package-version.m4 serial 2 (gettext-0.18)
-dnl Copyright (C) 1992-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-dnl This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU
-dnl General Public License.  As a special exception to the GNU General
-dnl Public License, this file may be distributed as part of a program
-dnl that contains a configuration script generated by Autoconf, under
-dnl the same distribution terms as the rest of that program.
-
-# Make it possible to pass version numbers extracted from a file in
-# $(srcdir) to autoconf.
-#
-# Autoconf insists on passing the package name and version number to
-# every generated .h file and every Makefile. This was a reasonable
-# design at times when a version number was changed only once a month.
-# Nowadays, people often assign a new version number once a week, or
-# even change it each time a 'git' commit is made. Regenerating all
-# the files that depend on configure.ac (aclocal.m4, configure,
-# config.status, config.h, all Makefiles) may take 15 minutes. These
-# delays can severely hamper development.
-#
-# An alternative is to store the version number in a file in $(srcdir)
-# that is separate from configure.ac. It can be a data file, a shell
-# script, a .m4 file, or other. The essential point is that the maintainer
-# is responsible for creating Makefile dependencies to this version file
-# for every file that needs to be rebuilt when the version changes. This
-# typically includes
-#   - distributable documentation files that carry the version number,
-# but does not include
-#   - aclocal.m4, configure, config.status, config.h, all Makefiles,
-#   - executables.
-#
-# autoconf and automake make it hard to follow this approach:
-#
-# - If AC_INIT is used with arguments, there is a chicken-and-egg problem:
-#   The arguments need to be read from a file in $(srcdir). The location
-#   of $(srcdir) is only determined by AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR. AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR
-#   can only appear after AC_INIT (otherwise aclocal gives an error:
-#   "error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion").
-#   Furthermore, the arguments passed to AC_INIT must be literals; for
-#   example, the assignment to PACKAGE_VERSION looks like this:
-#     [PACKAGE_VERSION=']AC_PACKAGE_VERSION[']
-#
-# - If AC_INIT is used without arguments:
-#   Automake provides its own variables, PACKAGE and VERSION, and uses them
-#   instead of PACKAGE_NAME and PACKAGE_VERSION that come from Autoconf.
-#   - If AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is used with two arguments, automake options
-#     like 'silent-rules' cannot be specified.
-#   - If AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is used in its one-argument form or without
-#     arguments at all, it triggers an error
-#     "error: AC_INIT should be called with package and version arguments".
-#   - If AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is used in its one-argument form or without
-#     arguments at all, and _AC_INIT_PACKAGE is used before it, with
-#     the package and version number from the file as arguments, we get
-#     a warning: "warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: $VERSION_NUMBER".
-#     The arguments passed to _AC_INIT_PACKAGE must be literals.
-#
-# With the macro defined in this file, the approach can be coded like this:
-#
-#   AC_INIT
-#   AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(WITNESS)
-#   . $srcdir/../version.sh
-#   gl_INIT_PACKAGE(PACKAGE, $VERSION_NUMBER)
-#   AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([OPTIONS])
-
-# gl_INIT_PACKAGE(PACKAGE-NAME, VERSION)
-# --------------------------------------
-# followed by an AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE invocation,
-# is like calling AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(PACKAGE-NAME, VERSION)
-# except that it can use computed non-literal arguments.
-AC_DEFUN([gl_INIT_PACKAGE],
-[
-  AC_BEFORE([$0], [AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE])
-  dnl Define AC_PACKAGE_NAME, because macros such as gnulib/m4/acl.m4 need it.
-  m4_ifndef([AC_PACKAGE_NAME], [m4_define([AC_PACKAGE_NAME], [$1])])
-  dnl Redefine AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
-  m4_define([gl_AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE],
-    m4_bpatsubst(m4_dquote(
-        m4_bpatsubst(m4_dquote(
-            m4_bpatsubst(m4_dquote(
-                m4_defn([AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE])),
-              [AC_PACKAGE_NAME], [gl_INIT_DUMMY])),
-          [AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME], [gl_INIT_DUMMY])),
-      [AC_PACKAGE_VERSION], [gl_INIT_DUMMY])
-    [AC_SUBST([PACKAGE], [$1])
-     AC_SUBST([VERSION], [$2])
-    ])
-  m4_define([AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE],
-    m4_defn([gl_RPL_INIT_AUTOMAKE]))
-])
-m4_define([gl_INIT_DUMMY], [])
-AC_DEFUN([gl_RPL_INIT_AUTOMAKE], [
-  m4_ifval([$2],
-    [m4_fatal([After gl_INIT_PACKAGE, the two-argument form of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE cannot be used.])])
-  gl_AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([$1 no-define])
-  m4_if(m4_index([ $1 ], [ no-define ]), [-1],
-    [AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PACKAGE, "$PACKAGE", [Name of package])
-     AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(VERSION, "$VERSION", [Version number of package])
-    ])
-])