On 04/12/2010 04:50 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there any way at all to tweak the $VERSION that used in creating the > distdir (tarballs)? While I don't want to change the actual version of > a given package, I do want to add an identifier to the tarball. Such an > identifier would be introduced by a configure switch and thus subst'd > into the Makefile.
Check out the gnulib version-etc module, which adds configure options --with-packager, --with-packager-version, and --with-packager-bug-reports, which are then fed into --help and --version output of the built program to add some distro branding. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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