Re: Bison 2.7.1 incorrectly claims it's version 2.7.12-4996

[Akim Demaille]

Le 15 avr. 2013 à 23:09, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> a écrit :

> After installing Bison 2.7.1, I found that the shell command:
> 
> bison --version
> 
> outputs this text:
> 
> bison (GNU Bison) 2.7.12-4996
> ...
> 
> That "2.7.12-4996" isn't right; it should be "2.7.1".

Ah, not again!

I did build from tarball, but did not notice this.

There must be something wrong in the release procedure, but I
don't know exactly what.

I don't plan to issue a fix for this, I'll wait either for 2.7.2
with other fixes, or 3.0.

Thanks Paul!