[PATCH] Fix building in git shallow clones

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Tue Jan 21 11:26:35 UTC 2014


On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 19:11 +0100, Anton Lundin wrote:
> On 21 January, 2014 - Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I don't think this is correct. With this patch, someone building from
> > the release tar file will now suddenly get a -git version.
> > 
> > That seems wrong.
> > 
> 
> They won't. Its still in the exists(.git/HEAD):-block.

Ehhh. Missed that part.

> If you read the $$system("sh scripts/get-version... blocks you see that
> if the command fails it tries to _run_ the version, not echo it, so this
> is code that never worked.
> 
> I can change it to default to whatever hard-coded version we have and
> just skip the -git part if you would like that. 

No, that's fine. Within the exists(.git/HEAD):-block this makes sense.

Applied

/D



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