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diff --git a/Etc/zsh-development-guide b/Etc/zsh-development-guide index 793e2d255..f0a5ac80e 100644 --- a/Etc/zsh-development-guide +++ b/Etc/zsh-development-guide @@ -856,3 +856,13 @@ The following parameters are currently used: distribution, but that need to be present in the CVS tree. This variable is not used by the zsh build process and is present for the convenience of external checks. + +Version Suffixes +---------------- +The configure script reads the version number from Config/version.mk. +If the environment variable ZSH_EXTRAVERSION is set, the string +contained therein will be appended to the version string. For example, +if Config/version.mk contains "VERSION=4.3.4-dev-7" and +ZSH_EXTRAVERSION is set to "-ca", $ZSH_VERSION in the shell built from +that run will equal "4.3.4-dev-7-ca". Caution is recommended when +using this feature, as is-at-least may misunderstand your conventions. |