[mythtv] Configure errors after 40c6bac0

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 24/04/2021 18:59, Paul Harrison wrote:
> On 23/04/2021 15:39, David Hampton via mythtv-dev wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 2021-04-23 at 14:09 +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>> Using git processing inside configure has come
>>> up before, and has previously been rejected.
>> I was unaware of this history, so it was a while ago.
>>
> 
> The configure script should not assume it is part of a git repo because 
> many users and packagers, including the Ubuntu PPA builder scripts, 
> create a source tar ball and build from that. We also provide  source 
> tar balls that don't contain any of the git stuff so they would also 
> fail to build.
> 

And that ^^^ is the technical reason why :)

Regards
Stuart