[Issue 15910] Prevent mismatch of VERSION information in dmd releases

[via Digitalmars-d-bugs]

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15910

--- Comment #3 from Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> ---
Unfortunately, the proposed workaround didn't work for me when I tried it.

If when trying to build phobos I use,

    make -f posix.mak VERSION=2.071

then I wind up with generated library files:

libphobos2.so -> libphobos2.so.0..
libphobos2.so.0. -> libphobos2.so.0..
libphobos2.so.0..
libphobos2.so.0..o

... when obviously I'd expect the names to be so.0.71.0 etc.

Tweaking to e.g. VERSION=2.071.0 makes no difference, it looks like phobos'
build scripts just can't handle a custom VERSION override like this.

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