Comment 2 for bug 1079941

It's not that the file gets stripped out, but that it is generated by 'make dist' when the tarballs are built.

There are --with-system-libs3 and --with-system-leveldb configure flags that ignore the bundled library code. Would it help if those were the defaults? Or is there a fundamental issue with bundled code even if it isn't built?

The missing version string is the only impact. Users can't use 'ceph -v' or query running daemons to determine what version is running (e.g., via 'service ceph status') and get confused.