Bug 62989

Summary:	Git-checked-out build doesn't work if Git-info (.git dir) is not available
Product:	PulseAudio	Reporter:	Albert Zeyer <albzey>
Component:	build-system	Assignee:	pulseaudio-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	pulseaudio-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	lennart
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
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Description Albert Zeyer 2013-04-01 11:09:52 UTC

When you check out a snapshot from the source code via Git, the build-system fails to work if you don't have the Git information (the .git dir) anymore. More specifically, it tries to use git-version-info which fails.

It should still work thought and provide some fallback mechanism.

This case happens for example in the Homebrew system on MacOSX which has an option to build the current trunk. That option will download the source from Git but when building the source, it doesn't include the .git directory.

Comment 1 Arun Raghavan 2013-04-01 17:04:23 UTC

You can set GIT_DESCRIBE_FOR_BUILD in your environment and that version will be used if you can't run 'git describe' in your build environment.

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