Mac Build: bdw-gc dirty tree?

[John Ralls]

On Oct 12, 2014, at 5:38 PM, Jeff Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I keep getting:
> 
> *** Checking out bdw-gc *** [63/67]
> git remote set-url origin git://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc
> git remote update origin
> Fetching origin
> *** Error during phase checkout of bdw-gc: Refusing to switch a dirty tree.
> *** [63/67]
> 
>  [1] Rerun phase checkout
>  [2] Ignore error and continue to configure
>  [3] Give up on module
>  [4] Start shell
> ...
> 
> I work around this via: go to shell, git pull (ignore errors), git stash
> save, git pull, git stash pop, cntl-D, [2] Ignore error...  and it compiles
> and move on.  Any better way to work around this?  Is this a gnucash thing
> to fix, or somebody else?

Yeah, just hit 2. It's pulling a tag so it's not going to change. I haven't bothered to figure out what exactly Boehm put in the repo that he shouldn't have, but obviously he did. Might be as simple as configure.

Regards,
John Ralls