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Re: failed build from git repo
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Peter O'Gorman |
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Re: failed build from git repo |
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Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:21:58 -0500 |
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William Pursell wrote:
> which seems reasonable given:
> $ ./tests/autoconf --version
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) UNKNOWN
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> (I have not yet installed help2man, but it seems unlikely that
> that is relevant.)
> Is this expected behavior?
If you do not have git installed on the system that you are
bootstrapping on, or it is not in your path, things will fail like this.
You can work around it by doing 'echo 2.62a > .tarball-version' before
you bootstrap.
Peter
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