On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:15:41 -0400 Zack Weinberg <za...@panix.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 4:57 PM Nick Bowler <nbow...@draconx.ca> wrote: > > On 2020-10-20, Sergei Trofimovich <sly...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > Initial bug is reported as autoconf failure on ghc-8.8.4: > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/750191 > > > There autconf 2.69 works, 2.69c does not. > ... > > > $ cat configure.ac > > > AC_INIT([The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System], [9.1.0], > > > [glasgow-haskell-b...@haskell.org], [ghc-AC_PACKAGE_VERSION]) > > > > > > echo "$PACKAGE_VERSION" > > > > > > AC_OUTPUT > > If I understand correctly, the intention is to have $PACKAGE_VERSION > set to "9.1.0" and $PACKAGE_TARNAME set to "ghc-9.1.0"? I think the intention is to have PACKAGE_VERSION=9.1.0 (and tarball) for a release (RELEASE=YES in configure.ac). For development versions PACKAGE_VERSION (and tarball name) is mangled later in configure.ac after AC_INIT based on current commit: https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/aclocal.m4#L1646 -- Sergei
