[FFmpeg-devel] snapshots differ from git clone

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 10:54:15PM +0200, Jan Ehrhardt wrote:
> I have a script that cross-compiles ffmpeg on Ubuntu for Windows.
> Because it is faster to download a snapshot and extract it than
> doing a git clone the script uses
> http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot-git.tar.bz2
> 
> Recently I ran into unresolved externals in x86/dirac_dwt_init.c/o.
> Details below. A clumsy workaround:
> 
> $ rm -f libavcodec/x86/dirac*
> $ git stash
> 
> The problem seems to be that the snapshots differ from a git clone
> and for instance contain >50 untracked files, amongst which:
> 
>     libavcodec/x86/dirac_dwt.c
>     libavcodec/x86/dirac_dwt.h
>     libavcodec/x86/diracdsp_mmx.c
>     libavcodec/x86/diracdsp_mmx.h
>     libavcodec/x86/diracdsp_yasm.asm
>     libavcodec/x86/dwt_yasm.asm
>     libavcodec/x86/vc1dsp.asm
> 
> A git clone has only these files:
> 
>     libavcodec/x86/diracdsp.asm
>     libavcodec/x86/diracdsp_init.c
>     libavcodec/x86/dirac_dwt.asm
>     libavcodec/x86/dirac_dwt_init.c
> 
> Question: why are the snapshots different from a git clone?

some stale files in the directory used to build the snapshot
ive fixed it earlier today
this should not reoccur

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