[coreboot] make und Git: fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.

[Paul Menzel]

Dear coreboot folks,

I cloned the source tree,

$ git describe
        4.0-2410-g92ff934

did `make crossgcc` and run `make menuconfig`.

I chose ASRock E350M1 and SeaBIOS master.

At the end I got the following.

$ make
        […]
            Checking out SeaBIOS revision origin/master
        Switched to branch 'master'
        Deleted branch coreboot (was 347f294).
        Branch coreboot set up to track remote branch master from origin.
        Switched to a new branch 'coreboot'
            CONFIG     SeaBIOS origin/master
          Working around non-functional -combine
          Build default config
        # 
        # configuration written to /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/.config
        #
            MAKE       SeaBIOS origin/master
          Working around non-functional -combine
          Build Kconfig config file
        /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/.config:89:warning: override: reassigning to symbol COREBOOT
        /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/.config:90:warning: override: reassigning to symbol DEBUG_SERIAL
        /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/.config:95:warning: override: reassigning to symbol VGAHOOKS
        #
        # configuration written to /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/.config
        #
          Compiling whole program /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/out/ccode32flat.o
          Compiling whole program /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/out/code32seg.o
          Compiling whole program /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/out/ccode16.o
          Compiling to assembler /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/out/asm-offsets.s
          Generating offset file /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/out/asm-offsets.h
          Compiling (16bit) /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/out/romlayout.o
          Building ld scripts
        fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
      * Version: -20120524_211503-asrock-e350m1
        Fixed space: 0xe05b-0x10000  total: 8101  slack: 10  Percent slack: 0.1%
        16bit size:           38848
        32bit segmented size: 2307
        32bit flat size:      17309
        32bit flat init size: 40928
        Lowmem size:          2144
          Linking /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/out/rom16.o
          Stripping /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/out/rom16.strip.o
          Linking /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/out/rom32seg.o
          Stripping /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/out/rom32seg.strip.o
          Linking /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/out/rom.o
          Prepping /home/joe/coreboot/build/seabios/out/bios.bin
        […]

I guess it has to do with cloned SeaBIOS git tree.

Thanks,

Paul