... > I am working with a filesystem mounted via nfs. ... > It seems that it do not allow hard linkage. Nevertheless soft linkage > is allow. Beware that git depends on that stat() gives the correct (Posix) size of symlinks. This can give problems, if a Windows filesystem is mounted over NFS. > So the build process failed during the link of built-in commands. > git-merge-subtree$X: target and > $(BUILT_INS): target. > > Is it necessary to do hard link instead of soft link ? You can change the Makefile (look for calls to 'ln') to copy the build-in commands instead of linking them, and that should work (but waste some space). Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html