Re: [ovirt-devel] VDSM fails 'autogen.sh' when shallow cloning - is that expected?

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > Probably fails because of: > git describe > fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. Yes. I think autogen.sh and configure.ac shouldn't rely on git for package versioning. The automation/build-artifacs.sh script can take care of adding suffixes to rpm release if needed at build time. Version should be statically defined within configure.ac.

> > > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> >> Cloning VDSM with the following command: >> git clone -b master --depth 1 git://gerrit.ovirt.org/vdsm >> >> Which works, but then I can't run ./autogen.sh succesfully: >> mini@ykaul-mini:/tmp/github/vdsmshallow$ ./autogen.sh |less >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> I am going to run ./configure with no arguments - if you wish >> to pass any to it, please specify them on the ./autogen.sh command line. >> configure: error: package version not defined >> >> As the difference is 1:10 in data size and I only wish to work on the >> tip, this could be very useful to me. >> Any ideas? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel