Release tarball is unable to determine what version it is
sambler opened this issue · comments
In a release tarball, there is no version file and no git files to query. This means we need to manually specify the PTEX_VER during config.
Without defining PTEX_VER the replace on line 48 fails.
Hi @sambler we don't "officially" support the release tarballs but we'll look into improving this in the future. For now it's expected that you provide a version file yourself since it's out-of-band metadata that will not be present in a git archive export of the project (aka github's zip downloads).
So after you unzip and enter the directory, assuming you downloaded the v1.2.3 tarball, run echo v1.2.3 >version and that'll do the trick for now.
I'll leave this issue open until we have a commit that adds a fallback scheme for the version that will prevent users from running into this.