"Zack Weinberg" <[email protected]> wrote: > ... When building from a git checkout, the build scripts (not > just the bootstrap script) inspect the git *history* to determine > Autoconf's own version number, and that doesn't work with a shallow > clone.
Is this something that could/should be fixed someday? I'm thinking of something along the lines of if // in a git checkout, but there is no history then // fetch the history from the remote repo fi (and no, I am not sufficiently familiar with either git or autoconf to flesh out those // descriptions).
