Re: ELPA git repo contains zero-padded file modes and running ~$ make fails

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>>> Known problem: just disable fsck for the initial fetch.
>> Thanks.  Is there any way to fix it?

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> Any chance you haven't done `make externals` beforehand?
>
> `ebdb` is an "external" package (i.e. it's kept in its own branch), and
> `ebdb-gnorb` depends on `ebdb`, so if you don't `make externals` it's
> normal that `ebdb-gnorb` fails to compile.
>
>>> If you pull the elpa repository cleanly and still get this error,
>>> please let me know. TBH this package probably doesn't need to exist,
>>> it's a holdover from back when I didn't know how to do
>>> between-package packages.
>> Maybe it can simply be removed, then?
>
> Or turned into an "external" as well.

I'll do one or the other soon, but I'd be curious to know if Bastien
hasn't done `make externals`, and if that fixes the problem for sure.
Just FMI.