Makefile: use git version string if we can Some packagers overwrote the version we embed in aerc, we really don't want that. Hence we force clear the variable at the beginning of the makefile. If git is available and returns a useful info we now use that version instead of the hardcoded version
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M Makefile => Makefile +6 -0
@@ 2,7 2,13 @@ .SUFFIXES: .SUFFIXES: .1 .5 .7 .1.scd .5.scd .7.scd override undefine VERSION # don't allow local overrides, we want our version _git_version=$(shell git describe --long --tags --dirty 2>/dev/null | sed 's/-/.r/;s/-/./') ifeq ($(strip $(_git_version)),) VERSION=0.5.2 else VERSION=$(_git_version) endif VPATH=doc PREFIX?=/usr/local