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checkinstall asking for version

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I have a autoconf/automake/autoeverything project that I'm installing with checkinstall. When I go to install it, I'm shown this

This package will be built according to these values: 



0 -  Maintainer: [ [email protected] ]

1 -  Summary: [ Package created with checkinstall 1.6.2 ]

2 -  Name:    [ mypkg ]

3 -  Version: [  ]

4 -  Release: [ 1 ]

5 -  License: [ GPL ]

6 -  Group:   [ checkinstall ]

7 -  Architecture: [ amd64 ]

8 -  Source location: [ mypkg ]

9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]

10 - Requires: [  ]

11 - Provides: [ mypkg ]

12 - Conflicts: [  ]

13 - Replaces: [  ]

... which generally looks good, but has a missing "version". Check install won't proceed until I manually give it a value. My question is, in what file can I put that version so that I don't need to manually enter it ever time?

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answered 3 Years ago cocal · Accepted Answer

Ok, so I think I figured this out. It will try the following:

Use anything after '-' in the name of the current directory. That is, naming the directory 'project-1.0' will give it a value of '1.0'. My directory was simply named 'project'.

Second it will look for a line '#define VERSION "something"' in config.log, and give it a value of 'something'. I still don't know why my config.log doesn't have that line in it.

If the config.log file doesn't exist, it will use the current date.

In my case, because config.log does exist, but was missing the '#define VERSION' line, it was simply getting no value at all.