or some variation in the path, the new version assumes that $0 is
newvers.sh path, and that dirname $0/.. is the same as $S aka $SYSDIR.
It also removes knowledge of ${MACHINE} and ${MACHINE_ARCH}, which is
also good.
# I've had this in my tree for about 6 months now, which is why I
# didn't notice that I broke it in r209510 and that was fixed in
# r212954. This should finally resolve the issues people had with
# r204824 as well as address the issues that motivated r204824.
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