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

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

John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Joseph Rushton Wakeling from comment #3)
> 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.

I think VERSION= expects a file, not a value

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