thanks to EugeneKay for catching this
I was very, very, tempted to say "sorry; not supported". Sadly, prudence won over juvenile glee... PS: DOS == dominant operating system
I don't know why I had put VERSION in GL_ADMIN_BASE, which is pretty stupid. It should be in GL_BINDIR. It also has nothing to do with setup -- the file needs to be generated at 'install' time.