[Spice-devel] How to modify spice version?

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Eduardo Lima (Etrunko)
<etrunko at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/29/2016 12:29 PM, Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) wrote:
>> On 04/28/2016 08:45 AM, Pavel Grunt wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 14:09 +0800, Chen yu wrote:
>>>> Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to see this letter.
>>>> I am trying to compile spice downloaded from github, but the versions of these
>>>> are 'UNKNOWN'. when I compiled QEMU with these spice, there have some errors
>>>> in the process of 'make'.
>>>> Could I modify the version of spice (spice-server and spice-gtk) temporarily
>>>> for testing and how should I do?
>>>
>>>
>>> Please, use repos from freedesktop https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/
>>> The github repos are mirrored, but they don't have tags, so they cannot generate
>>> version.
>>>
>>
>> Hmm, this should be fixed anyway, by pushing the tags to the github
>> repositories and also implement some fallback method in git-version-gen.

Yes, tags must be present.

>
>
> So, as far as I understand, there are two issues.
>
> 1) We should have specified --fallback in AC_INIT line

Why "should we"? even autoconf.git (the source of the script) isn't using it.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/tree/configure.ac



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Marc-André Lureau