> configure.ac:9: version `sharutils_version' doesn't follow Gnits standards
> Where do you get this error from? automake. See info Automake Gnits. I must be missing something utterly obvious, but I cannot find it at all: ~/s $ /bin/grep -ir "follow Gnits" autoconf automake gnulib sharutils ~/s $ > I suspect that the check is actually wrong, I'd need to see the configure.ac in order to confirm. configure.ac: | m4_include([version.m4]) | AC_INIT([GNU sharutils],[sharutils_version],[sharutils_eaddr]) version.m4: | m4_define([sharutils_version], [4.7.1]) | m4_define([sharutils_eaddr], [bug-gnu-ut...@gnu.org])