When attempting to build the most recent version through the package uploaded on AUR I receive the below error.
==> Starting prepare()...
make -f Makefile.am log
autoreconf -f -i
aclocal: error: configure.ac:6: file 'VERSION' does not exist
autoreconf: error: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
Aborting...
error: failed to build 'mbsync-git-1307.e70c300-1':
error: packages failed to build: mbsync-git-1307.e70c300-1
It seems highly related to https://sourceforge.net/p/isync/isync/ci/8421b3cb223eced0e07ae65eaf21486d22beb573/ - do downstream packagers have to adapt to conform, or is this an oversight here?
yes, if they use git archives instead of tar balls or plain git clones.
... and additionally, i broke the git bootstrap. heh.
fixed by commit 4c2031d6.