LIB_VERSION is supposed to be something like 11.0.1, not simply reiterate the project version. As a result, we ended up with this: $ pacman -V [...] Pacman v5.1.0 - libalpm v5.1.0 [...] Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> --- meson.build | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index 650e599f..f5601ff8 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ conf.set_quoted('PACKAGE_VERSION', PACKAGE_VERSION) conf.set_quoted('LOCALEDIR', LOCALEDIR) conf.set_quoted('SCRIPTLET_SHELL', get_option('scriptlet-shell')) conf.set_quoted('LDCONFIG', LDCONFIG) -conf.set_quoted('LIB_VERSION', meson.project_version()) +conf.set_quoted('LIB_VERSION', libalpm_version) conf.set_quoted('SYSHOOKDIR', join_paths(DATAROOTDIR, 'libalpm/hooks/')) conf.set_quoted('CONFFILE', join_paths(SYSCONFDIR, 'pacman.conf')) conf.set_quoted('DBPATH', join_paths(LOCALSTATEDIR, 'lib/pacman/')) -- 2.23.0