configure:1987: error: package version not defined

[frediz]

Hi,
I get the tarball of ginger from github to produce a debian package :
https://github.com/kimchi-project/ginger/tags and after running autoreconf,
the configure fails with :

configure: error: package version not defined

This seems to be due to PKG_VERSION not defined and checking further,
it should be defined by build-aux/pkg-version :

PKG_VERSION=`git describe --tags --match "ginger-[0-9]*" 2> /dev/null || cat VERSION 2> /dev/null`

Even if I put a build dependency to git in the debian environment, there is no .git in the tarball and the VERSION file is not there either. The latter should be produced from Makefile :

VERSION:
        @if test -d .git; then                                \
                git describe --abbrev=0 > $@;                     \
        fi

it is supposed to be generated as a result of make dist before delivering the tarball.

For now, I've patched pkg-version with the hardcoded version of ginger in the debian package :

-PKG_VERSION=`git describe --tags --match "ginger-[0-9]*" 2> /dev/null || cat VERSION 2> /dev/null`
+PKG_VERSION=`git describe --tags --match "ginger-[0-9]*" 2> /dev/null || echo ginger-1.3.0 2> /dev/null`

But I guess the source tarballs should provided a VERSION file already.

[frediz]

Tested and OK,
Thanks