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

[Yaniv Kaul]

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 at ykaul-mini:/tmp/github/vdsmshallow$ ./autogen.sh  |less
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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?
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