[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk v2] build-sys: Make git-version-gen work again with Meson

[Frediano Ziglio]

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 09:28:36AM -0500, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com>
> > > off-topic, but the tarball generated with ninja dist is only usable with
> > > meson even if it contains autotools files too (but eg gtk-doc.make is
> > > missing).
> > > 
> > > Christophe
> > > 
> > 
> > Well, I'm glad "ninja dist" is working for me, in my case I cannot
> > say it works, I have to create some fake links in order to get
> > the tarball, should be just a question of "git checkout",
> > "meson", "ninja dist" but fails with a git error.
> 
> git error?  because of submodules, or because of something else?
> Since our .gitmodules has:
> [submodule "spice-common"]
> 	path = subprojects/spice-common
> 	url = ../spice-common.git
> 
> I had to make sure I have a spice-common.git clone.
> 
> Christophe
> 

Yes, that bug. Just "ln -s spice-gtk/.git/modules/spice-common ../spice-common.git",
no need to clone, but still a Meson bug.

Frediano