On 10/27/2013 02:30 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > This fixes a problem Paul noticed with grep-2.15: > > From 4c2f17d2a671eb6fc6ae318647040598f67705cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 19:26:13 -0700 > Subject: [PATCH] maint.mk: fix "release" target to build _version > > This fixes a bug in README-release whereby following the outlined > steps, one would publish a tarball whose programs would report > --version output not consistent with the package version number. > This bug caused grep-2.15 to produce a grep program whose > --version option made it print 2.14.56-1e3d rather than 2.15. > * top/maint.mk (release): Making this target build "_version" > ensures that the new version number is reflected in configure.
Cool, we'll get that on the next gnulib sync, which we'll be doing soon, so marking this done. thanks, Pádraig.
