Hi all: I downloaded libvirt v1.3.4 from http://libvirt.org/sources, and try to make syntax-check inside the code tree. But I encounted with many problems, first, I need to have file .gitignore and directory .git, and then have gnulib, many problems still comes out after that. I still have not fixed the problems until now. So what's the right way to make syntax-check on released-version libvirt project? Thanks in advance.

>> Hi all: >> I downloaded libvirt v1.3.4 from http://libvirt.org/sources, and try to >make syntax-check inside the code tree. >> But I encounted with many problems, first, I need to have file .gitignore >and directory .git, and then have gnulib, many problems still comes out after >that. >> I still have not fixed the problems until now. >> So what's the right way to make syntax-check on released-version libvirt >project? Thanks in advance. > >You're not. The syntax-check rule is for developers to use before >merging code to git master. There's no reason to use it on released >versions > Here's my situation: I want to use libvirt v1.3.4 as my own git base, the steps are: 1 Download libvirt v1.3.4 from http://libvirt.org/sources 2 add .gitignore inside the code tree 3 run "git init" to generate my own git tree 4 do some develop work 5 FAILED to do make syntax-check If we want to have our own git repository, what's the right way to do? Is it necessary to do "git fork" rather than "git init" to do development work?