BUILD: makefile: do not rely on shell substitutions to determine git version
Solaris's default shell doesn't support substitutions at the beginning or
end of variables, which are still used to determine the version based on
git. Since we added --abbrev=0 we don't need the last one. And using cut
it's trivial to replace the first one, actually simplifying the whole
expression.
This may be backported to all stable branches.
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3d67fd2..54d345f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@
# holding the same names in the current directory.
ifeq ($(IGNOREGIT),)
-VERSION := $(shell [ -d .git/. ] && ref=`(git describe --tags --match 'v*' --abbrev=0) 2>/dev/null` && ref=$${ref%-g*} && echo "$${ref\#v}")
+VERSION := $(shell [ -d .git/. ] && (git describe --tags --match 'v*' --abbrev=0 | cut -c 2-) 2>/dev/null)
ifneq ($(VERSION),)
# OK git is there and works.
SUBVERS := $(shell comms=`git log --format=oneline --no-merges v$(VERSION).. 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d '[:space:]'`; commit=`(git log -1 --pretty=%h --abbrev=6) 2>/dev/null`; [ $$comms -gt 0 ] && echo "-$$commit-$$comms")