[ipxe-devel] Build fail

[Michael Brown]

On 06/01/2020 16:32, Jason Wohlford wrote:
> I got a bad build on 18dc73d. It does not occur on ed4a82e. Please advise. Details below.
> 
> root at montgomery:# lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
> Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.6 LTS
> Release:	14.04
> Codename:	trusty
> root at montgomery:# git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe.git

As of commit

   http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/8f1514a00

the version number is automatically constructed based on the most recent 
git tag.  The "--depth 1" in your clone command will prevent the tag 
from being present, which is most likely causing the problem.

Michael