From ad126e71555143bc8e83a887abd4df2fa23fba01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Nadlinger <code@klickverbot.at>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 23:23:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix Git tag -> version string conversion on CMake 2.8.0.

This version is notably shipped with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, used
for building the Linux release binaries.
---
 CMakeLists.txt | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e77ec831..ad9ab7a5 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -170,8 +170,12 @@ include(GetGitRevisionDescription)
 git_get_exact_tag(TAG)
 if(NOT TAG MATCHES "NOTFOUND")
     if(TAG MATCHES "v[0-9].*")
-        # For a version tag, remove the leading 'v'.
-        string(SUBSTRING "${TAG}" 1 -1 LDC_VERSION)
+        # For a version tag, remove the leading 'v'. CMake 2.8.0 (e.g. Ubuntu
+        # 10.04 LTS) doesn't support -1 in string(SUBSTRING ...), so spell it
+        # out.
+        string(LENGTH "${TAG}" taglen)
+        MATH(EXPR taglen "${taglen} - 1")
+        string(SUBSTRING "${TAG}" 1 ${taglen} LDC_VERSION)
     else()
         set(LDC_VERSION "${TAG}")
     endif()