One of my previous patches 5cfe0d37cd0be tried to handle the case when libvirt is a submodule of another project. In that case, the .git is just a link to the parent .git directory (which the autogen.sh script didn't count on). The fix was missing 'test' though. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- autogen.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh index f7c2022..5aa1990 100755 --- a/autogen.sh +++ b/autogen.sh @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ bootstrap_hash() # like to run 'git clean -x -f po' to fix it; but only ./bootstrap regenerates # the required file po/Makevars. # Only run bootstrap from a git checkout, never from a tarball. -if test -d .git || -f .git; then +if test -d .git || test -f .git; then curr_status=.git-module-status t= if test "$no_git"; then t=no-git -- 1.8.1.5