AC_INIT causes non-fatal error spew during builds of the released tarball, because no .git/ is shipped with the tarball (which is perfectly reasonable). It would be better to test for existence of the folder before running the git command.
The make dist target is supposed to replace that git command with the actual version. Somehow, the 1.6.1 tarball that got uploaded didn't have this replacement applied. I tried running make dist just now and it does seem to work.
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make disttarget is supposed to replace that git command with the actual version. Somehow, the 1.6.1 tarball that got uploaded didn't have this replacement applied. I tried runningmake distjust now and it does seem to work.