Re: git checkout

[Paolo Bonzini]

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

Paolo