On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 11:29:02AM +0100, Dani Camps wrote:
> I have cloned openvswitch into a private git repository and when
> compiling with make I get an error that the distribution is missing
> files in dist-hooks-git.
>
> The error comes from this line in Makefile.am:
>
> (cd $(srcdir) && git ls-files) | grep -v '\.gitignore$$' | \
> sort -u > all-gitfiles;
>
> Because in my case the grep statement, which I understand should
> filter out all files ignored in .gitignore, is not filtering anything.
No, it's only supposed to filter out the .gitignore file itself. ("git
ls-files" won't list any files that will be ignored anyhow.)
> I am no expert on grep expressions, but I was wondering if this could
> be missing the -f modifier if what we want is to take the search
> expressions from a file.
No, it's not supposed to come from a file.
> Any help is appreciated. I copy my .gitignore at the end of the mail.
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