This confuses fedora and isn't really necessary.
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
# Autoconf
AC_PREREQ(2.59)
-AC_INIT([ceph], [0.26~rc], [ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org])
+
+# NOTE: This version is _only_ used for naming the tarball. The
+# VERSION define is not used by the code. It gets a version string
+# from 'git describe'; see src/ceph_ver.[ch]
+AC_INIT([ceph], [0.26rc], [ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org])
+
AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([src/gtest])
# Environment