bug#19616: [automake patch] use --hard-dereference with GNU Tar (was: dist tarball contains hardlinks)

2015-03-16 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: I believe my only choice at this point is to forbid "make dist" if tar is detected to be old (less than 1.29), and keep doing --hard-dereference. I open to new ideas though. :-) The attached patc

bug#19616: [Bug-tar] dist tarball contains hardlinks

2015-03-16 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: I believe my only choice at this point is to forbid "make dist" if tar is detected to be old (less than 1.29), and keep doing --hard-dereference. I open to new ideas though. :-) The attached patch solves the problem in a more elegant manner IMH