Compilation of Stanchion 2.1.2 fails on Raspbian (RasPiOS) = Debian 10 (Buster)

[christianbaun]

I have some trouble during installation of Stanchion 2.1.2 on latest Raspbian (RasPiOS) which is based on Debian 10 (Buster).

Steps to reproduce the issue:

$ cd ~
$ wget https://github.com/basho/stanchion/archive/2.1.2.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf 2.1.2.tar.gz 
$ cd stanchion-2.1.2
$ make rel
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
==> rel (get-deps)
==> stanchion-2.1.2 (get-deps)
Pulling lager from {git,"git://github.com/basho/lager",{tag,"2.2.0"}}
Cloning into 'lager'...
Pulling lager_syslog from {git,"git://github.com/basho/lager_syslog",
                               {tag,"2.1.1"}}
...<many lines>...
Compiled src/stanchion_wm_user.erl
Compiled src/stanchion_sup.erl
Compiled src/stanchion_acl_utils.erl
Compiled src/stanchion_utils.erl
ERROR: git describe --always --tags failed with error: 128 and output:
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

ERROR: compile failed while processing /home/pi/stanchion-2.1.2: rebar_abort
make: *** [Makefile:17: compile] Error 1

Some infrmation about the system:

$ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.19.118-v7+ #1311 SMP Mon Apr 27 14:21:24 BST 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/debian_version 
10.4

Update

When I clone the stanchion git repository and compile it with make rel, the issue does not appear.

$ git clone https://github.com/basho/stanchion.git
$ cd stanchion/
$ make rel
==> rel (get-deps)
==> stanchion (get-deps)
...<many lines>...
==> rel (compile)
==> stanchion (compile)
==> rel (generate)
Schema: ["/home/pi/stanchion/rel/stanchion/lib/00-stanchion.schema",
         "/home/pi/stanchion/rel/stanchion/lib/11-erlang_vm.schema"]