Prevent calling Git to obtain date of the last commit, and hardcode [last_git_commit] value to match package version. Index: configure.ac --- configure.ac.orig +++ configure.ac @@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ dnl along with this program; if not, write to the Free dnl Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA dnl PACKAGE_VERSION will be either "" if not using git, or date of the last git commit in the form YYYYMMDD -m4_define([last_git_commit], patsubst(m4_esyscmd([git log -n 1 --date=short --format=format:%cd]), [[^0-9]])) -AC_INIT([schismtracker],[last_git_commit]) +AC_INIT([schismtracker],[20221201]) AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([schism/main.c])