{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs/issues/7","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs/issues/7/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs/issues/7/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs/issues/7/events","html_url":"https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs/issues/7","id":122075192,"number":7,"title":"Github's release tarball not useable - version.h:1:2: error: #error UNVERSIONED tarball","user":{"login":"Whissi","id":729436,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/729436?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Whissi","html_url":"https://github.com/Whissi","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Whissi/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Whissi/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Whissi/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Whissi/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Whissi/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Whissi/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Whissi/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Whissi/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Whissi/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-12-14T16:14:19Z","updated_at":"2015-12-15T01:43:41Z","closed_at":"2015-12-15T01:43:41Z","body":"Hi,\r\n\r\nwhen you try building from the latest release tarball (https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs/archive/2.20.tar.gz) you will end up with an error like\r\n```\r\nIn file included from version.c:1:0:\r\nversion.h:1:2: error: #error UNVERSIONED tarball\r\n #error UNVERSIONED tarball\r\n  ^\r\nversion.c:3:55: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘;’ before ‘VERSION’\r\n static const char libhugetlbfs_version[] = \"VERSION: \"VERSION;\r\n                                                       ^\r\nMakefile:294: recipe for target 'obj64/version.o' failed\r\nIn file included from elflink.c:42:0:\r\nversion.h:1:2: error: #error UNVERSIONED tarball\r\n #error UNVERSIONED tarball\r\n  ^\r\nmake: *** [obj64/version.o] Error 1\r\nmake: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....\r\n```\r\nWhen you compare the GitHub release tarball with the 2.19 release tarball from [SF](https://sourceforge.net/projects/libhugetlbfs/files/latest/download) you will notice that that SF release tarball contains a \"version\" file..."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs/issues/comments/164615379","html_url":"https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs/issues/7#issuecomment-164615379","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs/issues/7","id":164615379,"user":{"login":"khers","id":11153535,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11153535?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/khers","html_url":"https://github.com/khers","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/khers/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/khers/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/khers/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/khers/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/khers/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/khers/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/khers/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/khers/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/khers/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-12-15T01:43:41Z","updated_at":"2015-12-15T01:43:41Z","body":"I never suggested people manually write a version file.\r\n\r\nHaving to edit a tag to add a binary attachment is not intuitive, but releases 2.18, 2.19, and 2.20 should now have working tar balls attached to them."}}