Re: make dist improvements

2008-10-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 11:10:20PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:56:02PM CEST: > >> Right. So why is: > >> > >> AMTAR = TAR_OPTIONS="$(TAR_OPTIONS)" ${SHELL} > >> /home/behdad/src/git/fd.o/cairo/build/missing --run tar

Re: make dist improvements

2008-10-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 11:31:29PM CEST: >> Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >>> * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:40:52PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > my-dist: > env TAR_OPTIONS="--owner=0 --group=0" $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFL

Re: make dist improvements

2008-10-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:56:02PM CEST: >> Right. So why is: >> >> AMTAR = TAR_OPTIONS="$(TAR_OPTIONS)" ${SHELL} >> /home/behdad/src/git/fd.o/cairo/build/missing --run tar >> >> not backward-compatible then? > > Because it breaks an external scrip

Re: make dist improvements

2008-10-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
BTW, somebody was nice enough to let mails to bugs-automake (not the bogus extra 's') find their way... * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:56:02PM CEST: > > Right. So why is: > > AMTAR = TAR_OPTIONS="$(TAR_OPTIONS)" ${SHELL} > /home/behdad/src/git/fd.o/cairo/build/missing --run

Re: make dist improvements

2008-10-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 11:31:29PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:40:52PM CEST: > >> Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >>> my-dist: > >>> env TAR_OPTIONS="--owner=0 --group=0" $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) dist > >> > >> Thanks

Re: make dist improvements

2008-10-06 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:40:52PM CEST: >> Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >>> my-dist: >>> env TAR_OPTIONS="--owner=0 --group=0" $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) dist >> >> Thanks. Done now. Would be nice if automake did that already. Or at least >> just

Re: make dist improvements

2008-10-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:40:52PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > my-dist: > > env TAR_OPTIONS="--owner=0 --group=0" $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) dist > > > Thanks. Done now. Would be nice if automake did that already. Or at least > just passed TAR_OPTIONS d

Re: make dist improvements

2008-10-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Behdad, unfortunately I'm still not fully through. I hate to send replies in bits, but it's also bad if the delay is unnecessarily long. So here we go with more bits: * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:14:46PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Fri,

Re: make dist improvements

2008-09-23 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Behdad, > > thank you for you helpful feedback! Addressing parts of it: Hi, Thanks again for the reply. > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:22:54AM CEST: >> Also may be a good idea to instruct tar to not record uid of the user making >> the tarball

Re: make dist improvements

2008-09-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Behdad, thank you for you helpful feedback! Addressing parts of it: * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:22:54AM CEST: > Also may be a good idea to instruct tar to not record uid of the user making > the tarball? Is there any way of doing that portably? Otherwise, the only cho

make dist improvements

2008-09-18 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi again, We're finally getting that cairo snapshot out, so here's some rambling about "make dist" improvements: - Sticky bits: We've had problems before that cairo tarballs have included files with sticky bits set. So we added a rule ourselves to clean up of any stic