Unable to compile using tarball

[chrisburr]

I am unable to build using the tarball at
https://github.com/cern-fts/davix/releases/download/R_0_7_3/davix-0.7.3.tar.gz
due to the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/conda/feedstock_root/build_artifacts/davix_1557317461225/work/genversion.py", line 253, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/conda/feedstock_root/build_artifacts/davix_1557317461225/work/genversion.py", line 224, in main
    gitDescribe = GitDescribe(sh("git describe --dirty").strip())
  File "/home/conda/feedstock_root/build_artifacts/davix_1557317461225/work/genversion.py", line 164, in sh
    raise Exception("Command {0} exited with code {1}".format(cmd, retcode))
Exception: Command git describe --dirty exited with code 128
Configuring cmake for davix version: 0.7.3

This occurs both when configuring with CMake and running make. The script used for the build and can be found here and works when checking out the tag directly.

You can see a full build log here (line 465 onwards).