[Mesa-dev] Trouble with missing git_sha1.h when building from a fresh tree

[Emil Velikov]

On 16 June 2016 at 20:47, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 June 2016 at 20:42, Haixia Shi <hshi at chromium.org> wrote:
>> Bisect shows the problem started at commit
>> 3689ef32afdafbb030069e560aac0e563fc29048
>> Author: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
>> Date:   Mon May 30 12:32:05 2016 +0100
>>
>>     automake: rework the git_sha1.h rule, include in tarball
>>
>>     As we'll need the file in the release tarball, rework the rule so that
>>     the file is regenerated _only_ if we're in a git repository.
>>
>>     With this in place we can build vulkan (anv) from a release tarball.
>>
>>     Cc: Jason Ekstrand <jason.ekstrand at intel.com>
>>     Cc: Kristian Høgsberg Kristensen <krh at bitplanet.net>
>>     Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
>>
>> I'm not building from a release tarball, but the workflow first copies the
>> source tree to a tmp directory (without the .git directory), so there's no
>> git_sha1.h file, and the file is not generated either.
>>
> Hmmm... I wouldn't have imagine this particular workflow. Have you
> considered gitlink and/or git worktree ?
>
> If neither of these are an option for you see my earlier email.
>
The former seems to be missing a manpage so here's a PDF
https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/git-link/latest/git-link.pdf

-Emil