Re: final snapshot before coreutils-6.8

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> According to Jim Meyering on 2/24/2007 6:08 AM:
>> Here is one last snapshot.
>> Note the new use of "+" as a pre-release indicator.
>> Somehow, that sounds better than "-dirty" :-)
>
> Except that when incrementally compiling a git snapshot, I get:
>
> configure.ac:23: version `6.7+' doesn't follow Gnits standards

Yep, that's inevitable if you update and just "make".
As you've seen before, that's not always going to work.
You need to rerun ./bootstrap.
In this case, you might be able to get by with just
"automake && ./config.status".