Hello Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 02:25:24PM CEST: > gnulib-tool's --symlink option [...]
> 2) "tar cfvz" creates a tarball which is not self-contained. It happened > twice to me today: I created a tarball of coreutils, transferred it to > another system for testing, and it didn't work because the symlinks > which point to a partition not available on that other system. > 3) Other manipulations a maintainer normally does (chmod -R or others) > might not work well with symlinks. Both of these are solved by make dist I don't think I ever create tarballs any differently (I have no intention to pack some src/srcfile-changed.c that doesn't belong in the tarball), and I get mildly upset if a maintainer thinks this target is reserved for him alone, i.e., by requiring cvs write access to succeed. Cheers, Ralf
