[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Olivier Biot wrote:

> AFAIK make dist should not include the CVS directories and the
> .cvsignore files, however this seems to be the case. As a result, the
> make-version.pl script sees that we're building from CVS and it will
> generate a CVS version in cvsversion.h.
>
> Maybe we want to create a beacon file in the top-level directory which
> would then inform make-version.pl that we're creating a real official
> release hence creating a cvsversion.h header *without* defining the
> CVS version.

I've just checked in support for a "version.conf" file, which lets you 
enable the version string and define its contents.  If it is not present 
the configuration

enable: 1
format: CVS %Y%m%d%H%M%S

is used.