[Swan] compile on debian; git is a requirement?

[Andrew Cagney]

It's a bug.  I suspect it is coming from this line:

mk/docker-targets.mk:BRANCH = $(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)

so try forcing that to something on the make line.

Andrew


On 26 February 2018 at 22:04, Computerisms Corporation
<bob at computerisms.ca> wrote:
> Hello Gurus,
>
> Today I tried to compile libreswan-3.23 on debian testing (buster).  At the
> end of the compile I got this:
>
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/libreswan-3.23/testing/enumcheck'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'local-all'.
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/libreswan-3.23/testing'
> /bin/bash: git: command not found
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'local-all'.
>
> Seems strange, but I installed git and now I get:
>
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/libreswan-3.23/testing'
> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'local-all'.
>
> I am not really sure if it actually compiled or not?
>
> I compiled 3.23 on a debian Jessie box the other day and everything went
> smoothly and didn't have any kind of git requirement.  Clearly something is
> different here, but apart from the obvious reference to git I am not really
> clear from the messages what it might be, wondering if anyone can point me
> at a clue?
>
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