[BRLTTY] 6.4 soon

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2021/08/16 at 21:57 +0200]

>I tried also building BRLTTY with mock, with the spec/source rpm based on the source package from Fedora 34. I got thiss error:
>
>/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./../brltty.pc /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/brltty-6.4-1
>.fc33.x86_64/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/brltty.pc
>../getrevid -p "revision_identifier=" ../ >>/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/brltty-6.4
>-1.fc33.x86_64/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/brltty.pc
>getrevid: unrecognized source repository type: ../
>getrevid: revision identifier not known
>make[1]: *** [Makefile:1204: install-pkgconfig-file] Error 3

This has now been fixed.

>Do you happen to know what that means?

When installing brltty.pc, the make file appends the current git revision - as revision_identifier= - to it. This information can't be obtained when building with the source not being the git worktree. This can also occur if the git worktree isn't fully copied.

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