make install fails when .git contains broken symlinks

[gfredericks]

For reasons that I assume are unrelated, the .git directory for bigcouch and the dependencies had some broken symlinks after cloning (e.g., the description file and the hooks). Strangely this causes make install to fail:

ERROR: Unable to generate spec: read file info /home/garyf/bigcouch/rel/../deps/chttpd/.git/description failed

Once I fixed the symlinks it built without incident.

If the build process has some need to be examining these files then this probably isn't a bug, but that seemed unlikely to me.

I'm using the bigcouch-0.4.0 tag.