[adding bug-gnulib, as owner of the git-version-gen script] According to Paolo Bonzini on 1/26/2010 3:24 AM: > On 01/24/2010 10:01 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> Somehow a git (tarball?[1]) checkout of Autoconf sometimes manages to >> get a version of UNKNOWN into its .version file. Presumably that is on >> systems without git installed (or listed as dependency). See on the >> hydra build:<http://hydra.nixos.org/build/256086> >> >> My point is, the error that follows is quite unintuitive, and the issue >> itself is worth fixing, too, I guess. > > True. > >> Maybe store in git a file >> containing at least the latest stable release number, so we can fall >> back to something like 2.65-dirty rather than UNKNOWN? > > You can get it from > > sed -e '/.*changes in Autoconf \([^( ]*\) ([^?].*/!d;s//\1/;q' NEWS
Or more simply, cat .prev-version Perhaps this is something that build-aux/git-version-gen should attempt to use as a fallback before returning UNKNOWN? -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net
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