Mike Frysinger wrote:
> the current git-version-gen script and its usage in packages such as coreutils
> is causing me headaches wrt distros. it currently assumes one of two states:
> - the current tree is a valid git repo belonging to the related project
> - the current tree is not a git repo (all the way back to the root)
>
> the reports i'm getting are that some people like to maintain some of the
> higher directories in git (perhaps even /), and so when you unpack a coreutils
> release and attempt to compile/install it, this script is triggered since git
> will walk back from $PWD to / to find a .git dir.
>
> this results either in incorrect warnings (during install), or incorrect
> forcing of autotools to be regenerated (during maintainer/dist targets).
>
> further, some of the commands used in git-version-gen require write access to
> the .git repo (i.e. git update-index --refresh), which our package management
> tools flag as a violation (after all, building/installing packages in $PWD
> generally should not be updating files outside of $PWD).
Thanks for the report.
I've included a patch below that makes the script skip the -dirty
check (index-updating part) when appropriate. If that's not enough,
please demonstrate precisely what's going wrong.
diff --git a/build-aux/git-version-gen b/build-aux/git-version-gen
index 68c7d64..686f703 100755
--- a/build-aux/git-version-gen
+++ b/build-aux/git-version-gen
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
# Print a version string.
-scriptversion=2011-01-04.17; # UTC
+scriptversion=2011-02-19.19; # UTC
# Copyright (C) 2007-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ nl='
# Avoid meddling by environment variable of the same name.
v=
+v_from_git=
# First see if there is a tarball-only version file.
# then try "git describe", then default.
@@ -134,24 +135,30 @@ then
# Change the first '-' to a '.', so version-comparing tools work properly.
# Remove the "g" in git describe's output string, to save a byte.
v=`echo "$v" | sed 's/-/./;s/\(.*\)-g/\1-/'`;
+ v_from_git=1
else
v=UNKNOWN
fi
v=`echo "$v" |sed 's/^v//'`
-# Don't declare a version "dirty" merely because a time stamp has changed.
-git update-index --refresh > /dev/null 2>&1
+# Test whether to append the "-dirty" suffix only if the version
+# string we're using came from git. I.e., skip the test if it's "UNKNOWN"
+# or if it came from .tarball-version.
+if test -n "$v_from_git"; then
+ # Don't declare a version "dirty" merely because a time stamp has changed.
+ git update-index --refresh > /dev/null 2>&1
-dirty=`exec 2>/dev/null;git diff-index --name-only HEAD` || dirty=
-case "$dirty" in
- '') ;;
- *) # Append the suffix only if there isn't one already.
- case $v in
- *-dirty) ;;
- *) v="$v-dirty" ;;
- esac ;;
-esac
+ dirty=`exec 2>/dev/null;git diff-index --name-only HEAD` || dirty=
+ case "$dirty" in
+ '') ;;
+ *) # Append the suffix only if there isn't one already.
+ case $v in
+ *-dirty) ;;
+ *) v="$v-dirty" ;;
+ esac ;;
+ esac
+fi
# Omit the trailing newline, so that m4_esyscmd can use the result directly.
echo "$v" | tr -d "$nl"
