[Nut-upsuser] building from git (was Re: Install problems (group permissions) with nut 2.7.2)

[Charles Lepple]

On Mar 10, 2015, at 11:20 AM, Rob Groner <rgroner at RTD.com> wrote:

> I added "_RTD" to the version string in configure.ac and ran autogen.sh and then configure, and it now shows the _RTD version string during configure.  I did a clean make and install, but don't see where else the version number may be showing.  When the executables startup, they show 2.7.2-signed-*.

I never finished the cleanup of that code, I guess. If you build and install from the Git tree, it generates a version based on the latest tag in Git. The tarball generated from 'make dist' uses the version in configure.ac, but only if you build it outside of the Git working directory.

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