Running ./autogen.sh helps.

configure

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
-# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69 for unrealircd 4.0.7.
+# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69 for unrealircd 4.0.8-rc1.
 #
 # Report bugs to <http://bugs.unrealircd.org/>.
 #
@@ -580,8 +580,8 @@ MAKEFLAGS=
 # Identity of this package.
 PACKAGE_NAME='unrealircd'
 PACKAGE_TARNAME='unrealircd'
-PACKAGE_VERSION='4.0.7'
-PACKAGE_STRING='unrealircd 4.0.7'
+PACKAGE_VERSION='4.0.8-rc1'
+PACKAGE_STRING='unrealircd 4.0.8-rc1'
 PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='http://bugs.unrealircd.org/'
 PACKAGE_URL='http://unrealircd.org/'
 
@@ -1316,7 +1316,7 @@ if test "$ac_init_help" = "long"; then
   # Omit some internal or obsolete options to make the list less imposing.
   # This message is too long to be a string in the A/UX 3.1 sh.
   cat <<_ACEOF
-\`configure' configures unrealircd 4.0.7 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+\`configure' configures unrealircd 4.0.8-rc1 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
 
 Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
 
@@ -1381,7 +1381,7 @@ fi
 
 if test -n "$ac_init_help"; then
   case $ac_init_help in
-     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of unrealircd 4.0.7:";;
+     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of unrealircd 4.0.8-rc1:";;
    esac
   cat <<\_ACEOF
 
@@ -1533,7 +1533,7 @@ fi
 test -n "$ac_init_help" && exit $ac_status
 if $ac_init_version; then
   cat <<\_ACEOF
-unrealircd configure 4.0.7
+unrealircd configure 4.0.8-rc1
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69
 
 Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -2139,7 +2139,7 @@ cat >config.log <<_ACEOF
 This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
 running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
 
-It was created by unrealircd $as_me 4.0.7, which was
+It was created by unrealircd $as_me 4.0.8-rc1, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.  Invocation command line was
 
   $ $0 $@
@@ -2545,7 +2545,7 @@ _ACEOF
 
 
 # Minor version number (e.g.: Z in X.Y.Z)
-UNREAL_VERSION_MINOR="7"
+UNREAL_VERSION_MINOR="8"
 
 cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
 #define UNREAL_VERSION_MINOR $UNREAL_VERSION_MINOR
@@ -2555,7 +2555,7 @@ _ACEOF
 # The version suffix such as a beta marker or release candidate
 # marker. (e.g.: -rcX for unrealircd-3.2.9-rcX). This macro is a
 # string instead of an integer because it contains arbitrary data.
-UNREAL_VERSION_SUFFIX=""
+UNREAL_VERSION_SUFFIX="-rc1"
 
 cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
 #define UNREAL_VERSION_SUFFIX "$UNREAL_VERSION_SUFFIX"
@@ -8497,7 +8497,8 @@ fi
 			as_fn_error $? "
 
   You have decided to build unrealIRCd with libcURL (remote includes) support.
-  However, you have disabled system-installed c-ares support (--with-system-cares).
+  However, you have system-installed c-ares support has either been disabled
+  (--without-system-cares) or is unavailable.
   Because UnrealIRCd will use a bundled copy of c-ares which may be incompatible
   with the system-installed libcURL, this is a bad idea which may result in error
   messages looking like:
@@ -9073,7 +9074,7 @@ cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<\_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
 # report actual input values of CONFIG_FILES etc. instead of their
 # values after options handling.
 ac_log="
-This file was extended by unrealircd $as_me 4.0.7, which was
+This file was extended by unrealircd $as_me 4.0.8-rc1, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.  Invocation command line was
 
   CONFIG_FILES    = $CONFIG_FILES
@@ -9136,7 +9137,7 @@ _ACEOF
 cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
 ac_cs_config="`$as_echo "$ac_configure_args" | sed 's/^ //; s/[\\""\`\$]/\\\\&/g'`"
 ac_cs_version="\\
-unrealircd config.status 4.0.7
+unrealircd config.status 4.0.8-rc1
 configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69,
   with options \\"\$ac_cs_config\\"