On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 04:17:40AM +0200, Øyvind A. Holm wrote: > > Interesting. I'm not able to reproduce it, but of course that doesn't > > mean much. > > I'll admit that I have a somewhat special build system, but it's been > working great since I created it 7 months ago, and I run the test suite > every time I install a new git. I'm using the Makefile located at > > https://gitlab.com/sunny256/src-other/blob/master/devel/git/Makefile > > It's only doing regular stuff like "make configure", "./configure", etc, > but I'm mentioning it in case the Makefile reveals something > interesting. The git installation is in a non-standard location, the > newest version of git I've installed is for example located under > /usr/src-other/pool/git.master.v2.13.1-394-g41dd4330a121/ . I couldn't reproduce either with my usual build, but I don't usually use autoconf. Running: make configure ./configure make (cd t && ./t1308-*) does fail for me. The problem is that the generated config.mak.autogen sets the wrong value for FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES (and overrides the default entry for Linux from config.mak.uname. So the configure script needs to be fixed. -Peff