Newer versions of git-version-gen document that it should be done, and builddir != srcdir builds are broken if it's not present in the tarball as we'd attempt to generate this file in the read-only source directory (if the source dir is read-only) --- Makefile.am | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index e2cab09..e260e00 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS = \ EXTRA_DIST = \ build-aux/git-version-gen \ + .version \ $(NULL) # Generate the ChangeLog file (with all entries since the switch to git) -- 1.8.4.2 _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel