On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 9:07 PM, Aaron Levinson <alevi...@aracnet.com> wrote: > > > On 4/22/2017 2:16 AM, Clément Bœsch wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 04:48:27PM -0700, Aaron Levinson wrote: >> [...] >>> >>> diff --git a/doc/fate.texi b/doc/fate.texi >>> index 7a96c25..f3b8c0c8 100644 >>> --- a/doc/fate.texi >>> +++ b/doc/fate.texi >>> @@ -77,6 +77,16 @@ FATE_SAMPLES=fate-suite/ make fate >>> @float NOTE >>> Do not put a '~' character in the samples path to indicate a home >>> directory. Because of shell nuances, this will cause FATE to fail. >>> + >>> +In addition, FATE will fail if files are checked out from git such >>> +that @kbd{@key{CR}@key{LF}} is used for line endings. This will occur >>> +on Windows when git is installed using the default options, because >>> +that causes git's @var{core.autocrlf} setting to be set to >>> +@option{true}. Make sure to set @var{core.autocrlf} to @option{input} >>> +or @option{false}, or, in the case that the repository has already >>> +been cloned, it is possible to get past this by executing the >>> +following command in the top-level ffmpeg directory: @command{find >>> +-name '*.h' -type f | xargs dos2unix}. >>> @end float >>> >> >> This is documented in doc/git-howto.texi, isn't it? > > > Yes it is, but just because it can be found elsewhere in the documentation > doesn't mean there isn't benefit to having a fallback elsewhere in the > documentation.
Can't we just make it point there, instead of explaining it again? - Hendrik _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel