Re: .version and .tarball-version

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Bruno Haible [2025-01-25 04:08 +0100] wrote:

> And here's a further simplification: No more need to pass the PACKAGE name
> twice in different places.

Great, thank you!  That means bootstrap can be reverted to not tracing
gl_INIT_PACKAGE again, right?

Another nice effect is that the 'redundant' ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 is
no longer essential.

Now I've noticed a separate issue with the VERSION_NUMBER docs:
running 'make dist' in a dirty worktree seems to get stuck in an
autoreconf loop involving GNUmakefile, judging from this message:

  INFO: running autoreconf for new version string: 0.0.0.4-9a38-dirty

Here, _curr-ver has a -dirty suffix but VERSION does not.

The loop does not happen if I commit all local changes, or remove the
sed -e 's/dirty$/modified/' invocation from configure.ac.

-- 
Basil