Hi Gregor, Please do as suggested by Wayne here: https://www.mail-archive.com/kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net/msg15285.html
I realise that it is not well documented yet, but anyways that is the way to do it for now. A note to everyone maintaining auto builders, please add "-DKICAD_REPO_NAME=stable -DKICAD_BUILD_VERSION=4.0.0-rc1" to your build configuration to generate the correct build version string. 2015-11-04 18:40 GMT+01:00 Gregor Riepl <onit...@gmail.com>: >> I shall upload the fixed revision soon, and include your hints. > > Ok, so I got kicad-4.0.0~rc1 from the package server today. > > There's one thing I noticed: Version information seems to be missing. > The project window title shows "no-vcs-found-product". > I believe there's a script that generates version.h that does not work > correctly when the sources aren't bzr-augmented. > IMHO, the solution would be to just create this file with static contents for > the release/rc builds. They probably forgot to include it in the upstream > source package? > > I also hit the problem that KiCad would not find the footprint libraries, but > that was a quick fix: I had them installed into /usr/share/kicad/footprints > previously, but they are in /usr/share/kicad/modules now. So I just changed > the path. >