[PATCH:modular] build.sh: Handle xcb-util module split

[Dirk Wallenstein]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:17:08AM +0200, Dirk Wallenstein wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 09:10:00PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > On 09/20/11 16:32, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> > >The git submodules have a public relation problem. Nothing tells you there is
> > >one and you get a strange build failure. You don't think of running the 'git
> > >submodule' commands.
> > 
> > Yeah, I should switch to using build.sh to do my pulls, but I've had my own
> > script since before that was added, so never needed to change.  I guess this
> > is more incentive to do so.
> > 
> > The other thing I needed to do, was to add to $HOME/.gitconfig:
> > 
> > [url "http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/"]
> >     insteadOf = "git://anongit.freedesktop.org/"
> 
> I thought I switch to checking out all modules with a '.git' suffix, so
> that even the following configuration works:
>   [url "http"]
>       insteadOf = "git"
> 
> Unfortunately there is some inconsistency at fd.o repositories.  Most
> end with a '.git' suffix, but not all (so far I've found fontconfig).

I filed a bug to make that switch more robust:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41164

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Cheers,
  Dirk