[ipxe-devel] Build fail

[Jason Wohlford]

> On Jan 6, 2020, at 10:08 AM, Santiago Torres-Arias <santiago at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> I think this is somewhat related, git-describe(1) would just
> failover to a commit-id when using --always (which coincidently is
> 18dc):
> 
>    [santiago at LykOS src]$ git describe --tags --always --long --abbrev=1 --match "v*"
>    18dc
> 
> The dead giveaway error is:
> 
>    <command-line>: error: invalid suffix "dc" on integer constant
> 
> I think we can modify src/Makefile:208 to account for a failing search
> (i.e., drop the --always), and then append an identifier such as
> (UNKNOWN). Or, we could prepend 0x somewhere so that the integer is
> interpreted as a hexadecimal value instead.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Santiago

Ah. Yes. What Santiago said. Ignore last email.

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