MDEV-25716 Building failure in S3 engine on MacOS

Fixed by renaming VERSION to VERSION.txt

Makefile.am

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ DISTCLEANFILES+= aminclude.am
 
 EXTRA_DIST+= README.rst
 EXTRA_DIST+= LICENSE
-EXTRA_DIST+= VERSION
+EXTRA_DIST+= VERSION.txt
 
 aclocaldir= $(datadir)/aclocal
 dist_aclocal_DATA=

configure.ac

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ m4_ifndef([AS_VAR_COPY], [m4_define([AS_VAR_COPY], [AS_LITERAL_IF([$1[]$2], [$1=
 
 # NOTE: Major version should be < 100 and minor/patch < 256 or bad things will
 # happen in src/asql/utility.cc
-AC_INIT([libmarias3],m4_esyscmd_s([tr -d '\n' < VERSION]),[linuxjedi@mariadb.com],[libmarias3],[https://mariadb.com])
+AC_INIT([libmarias3],m4_esyscmd_s([tr -d '\n' < VERSION.txt]),[linuxjedi@mariadb.com],[libmarias3],[https://mariadb.com])
 m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
 
 # Must come before AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.

docs/conf.py

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ copyright = u'2019 MariaDB Corporation Ab'
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version_file = open("../VERSION", "r")
+version_file = open("../VERSION.txt", "r")
 version = version_file.read().strip()
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
 get_rev= Popen("git rev-parse --short HEAD", shell=True, stdout=PIPE).stdout.read().strip()

docs/contributors/introduction.rst

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ If any of the source code has changed please see ``LIBMARIAS3_LIBRARY_VERSION``
 API Version
 -----------
 
-API versioning is stored in the ``VERSION`` file which is used by the build system to version the API and docs.  The versioning scheme follows the `Semantic Versioning Rules <http://semver.org/>`_.
+API versioning is stored in the ``VERSION.txt`` file which is used by the build system to version the API and docs.  The versioning scheme follows the `Semantic Versioning Rules <http://semver.org/>`_.
 
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