Thank you, Karl. I will not have much time until next week, but I will be back and try to propose a patch.
On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 11:00 PM madmurphy <madmurphy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you, Karl. I will not have much time until next week, but I will be > back and try to propose a patch. > > Il giorno gio 3 giu 2021 alle ore 00:13 Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> > ha scritto: > >> No, my name is not Jim, >> >> Sorry for being unclear. I wasn't guessing your name, but rather asking >> Jim Meyering, long-time maintainer of Automake, to chime in. >> >> make DIST_FLAGS='symlinks' dist >> >> I can't think of any specific problem with the idea, except for the >> general complication of adding a new "concept" of dist-time options. But >> still, it seems reasonable, if Automake is going to support symlinks in >> tarballs at all. Jim, wdyt? >> >> I do think the name of the variable should be DIST_OPTIONS rather than >> _FLAGS, since "symlinks" is not exactly a flag. Come to think of it, >> adding AM_, ending up with AM_DIST_OPTIONS, would be safer and clearer. >> >> Additionally we can also keep the EXTRA_DIST_LINKS, *which will >> still dereference symlinks unless used in conjunction with >> DIST_FLAGS='symlinks'*. >> >> Sounds sensible. --thanks for all, karl. >> >
