[ipxe-devel] [ipxe] Check if git index actually exists (#18)

Michael Brown mcb30 at ipxe.org
Tue Jan 28 16:04:30 UTC 2014


On 20/01/14 10:28, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> We should check if ../.git/index actually exists before relying on it.
> In case of using ipxe as a git submodule that's not true, and we
> shouldn't disallow bulding ipxe.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Lemenkov lemenkov at gmail.com <mailto:lemenkov at gmail.com>

This patch seems to mask the problem, rather than fixing it.  Is there a 
different file we should depend upon (instead of ../.git/index) to 
ensure that version.o gets rebuilt when the git checkout is updated?

Michael



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