From: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:12:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Hard link problem during build
Message-ID: <yqsr1w5oa21w.fsf@rifpc20.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <606CC410B038E34CB97646A32D0EC0BF09E1A4@venusbis.synchrotron-soleil.fr>

...
> I am working with a filesystem mounted via nfs.
...

> It seems that it do not allow hard linkage. Nevertheless soft linkage
> is allow.

Beware that git depends on that stat() gives the correct (Posix) size of
symlinks. This can give problems, if a Windows filesystem is mounted
over NFS.

> So the build process failed during the link of built-in commands.
> git-merge-subtree$X: target and
> $(BUILT_INS): target.
> 
> Is it necessary to do hard link instead of soft link ?

You can change the Makefile (look for calls to 'ln') to copy the build-in
commands instead of linking them, and that should work (but waste some
space).

Peter