From a01342a66adbf2a88b69fcf74b8e1f7b192986fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 21:22:46 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] make: fail build if git isn't present

git is needed to generate version information

Add a sanity check so that the build don't continue with an empty VERSION. This
is useful for sandboxed build where we might have forgot to include git.

Signed-off-by: William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>
---
 Makefile | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 912ffb3c9..3457301e8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 #! /usr/bin/make
 VERSION_NAME=Principled Opposition to SegWit
 VERSION=$(shell git describe --always --dirty=-modded --abbrev=7)
+
+ifeq ($(VERSION),)
+$(error "ERROR: git is required for generating version information")
+endif
+
 DISTRO=$(shell lsb_release -is 2>/dev/null || echo unknown)-$(shell lsb_release -rs 2>/dev/null || echo unknown)
 PKGNAME = c-lightning