Building from .zip should be possible

[quinox]

Currently you cannot build Prometheus using the zip-files mentioned in fe. https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/0.12.0.

When you try you get a bunch of warnings such as fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /tmp) eventually followed by the usage output of 6l and the failure Makefile:30: recipe for target 'build' failed.

Relevant chat on IRC:

jrv | ah, the zip file doesn't work because the Makefile expects the source directory to still be a git repository.
jrv | GitHub creates those zip files automatically, so we never tried that.
jrv | "-X main.buildRevision" isn't followed by an argument for that reason, which is why ld6 crashes
jrv | cause that's built via a git command
jrv | VERSION=$(shell cat git rev-parse --show-toplevel/VERSION)

[abraithwaite]

Is there any reason this version can't be in the Makefile?

It'd be nice to build it from an archive which have predictable stable urls.

[matthiasr]

Reopening, as discussed in #707 this is not really fixed yet.

As a workaround, set the VERSION variable either as VERSION=something make or make VERSION=something. After #707, both do the same.

[lock]

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