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

Probably fails because of: git describe fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.

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