while building GIT from tarball inside a GUB checkout (GUB is a build environment , now using GIT for version control): sed -e '1s|#!.*/sh|#!/bin/sh|' \ -e 's|@@PERL@@|/usr/bin/perl|g' \ -e 's/@@GIT_VERSION@@/release_2.11.17.1_of_lilypond_release/2.11.16.1.g3abe43a66cf3655e5ec5486c3001ac2ac479433.3.gdb02-dirty/g' \ -e 's/@@NO_CURL@@//g' \ apparently, the makefile blindly uses the output of git describe without checking whether there is a .git directory. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xxxxxxxxx - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html