7354574f49260362fdabce3552b6602fbe515ea4
maximilianh
  Wed Apr 30 16:54:57 2025 +0200
allowing builds on the beta tag alone, required to build the tree on a beta checkout so the install script does not have to lookup the current version number but can just do a git clone of beta and start the build

diff --git src/makefile src/makefile
index 8071b6a4add..9a50766ec7f 100644
--- src/makefile
+++ src/makefile
@@ -61,31 +61,31 @@
 	cd hg && ${MAKE} beta
 	cd utils/bedToBigBed && ${MAKE} beta
 
 # This log file can be useful when debugging problems on the alpha and beta builds.
 logUser:
 ifeq (${IS_HGWDEV},yes)
 	echo ${USER}, $(MAKECMDGOALS), `date` >> ${CGI_BIN}/buildLog.txt
 endif
 
 check-alpha:
 	# this will fail if we are not on master branch:
 	git branch | egrep '\* master' > /dev/null
 
 check-beta:
 	# this will fail if we are not in a beta checkout:
-	git branch | egrep '\* v[0-9]+_branch' > /dev/null	
+	git branch | egrep '\* v[0-9]+_branch|beta' > /dev/null	
 
 BLAT_SUITE_DIRS = blat gfClient gfServer webBlat hg/pslPretty hg/pslReps \
 	hg/pslSort utils/nibFrag utils/faToNib utils/faToTwoBit utils/twoBitToFa \
 	utils/twoBitInfo isPcr blatz
 
 blatSuite: ${BLAT_SUITE_DIRS:%=%.blatSuite}
 
 %.blatSuite: topLibs hgLib
 	 ${MAKE} -C $*
 
 # all of these application makefiles have been updated to include use
 #	of DESTDIR and BINDIR
 
 # common subdirs uses by multiple targets
 STD_DIRS = ameme index dnaDust protDust weblet aladdin primeMate fuse meta tagStorm \