On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 10:04 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Not just a one line patch, a one character patch.
>
> Use ?= instead of = in distdir assignment, so it can be overridden on
> the command line when building dist tarballs with patches.
This is already possible without this patch.
You can also override the VERSION variable.
Moreover, you might be interested in the configure option
--with-extra-version.