[lsst-dm-stack-users] DM Stack build troubles: OSX 10.8.5

[Mario Juric]

On 11/15/13 9:40 , Paul Price wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Dick Shaw wrote:
>> P.S.  Incidentally, there were a lot of errors like the following, during the build:
>> Cannot guess version without .git directory or git.version file; version will be set to "unknown"
> 
> This is not an error (resulting in a failed build), but a warning.
> It's our build software attempting to determine the product version
> from git, when the product isn't in git (it's from a tarball).  But
> the version is provided by another mechanism, so no worries.  I'll
> look into silencing it.
> 

I've had someone else point to this message as confusing -- unless it's
an error or a serious warning, I'd argue it should probably be silenced
by default?

Cheers,
-- 
Mario Juric,
Data Mgmt. Project Scientist, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
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