The git-version-gen script is not included in tarball releases, so we need to avoid attempts to call it when running autoreconf. Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [configuration] Signed-off-by: Andre McCurdy Index: strace-4.10/configure.ac =================================================================== --- strace-4.10.orig/configure.ac +++ strace-4.10/configure.ac @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ dnl Process this file with autoconf to create configure. Use autoreconf. AC_PREREQ(2.57) AC_INIT([strace], - m4_esyscmd([./git-version-gen .tarball-version]), + m4_esyscmd_s([cat .tarball-version]), [strace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net]) AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([strace.c]) AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.])