On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 12:44:13 +0200 Florian Haas <florian.haas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here's one thing I missed while testing my Makefile patches: some > older platforms, notably CentOS 5.3, come with a tar utility that > misses the --transform option, so "make tarball" breaks on those. This > patch changes the tarball target so it can do without transform. It > does a rather ugly cp -r now, though. > > Sorry for not noticing this sooner. > > Cheers, > Florian > > Florian Haas (1): > Top-level Makefile: do not use --transform when invoking tar > > Makefile | 7 +++++-- > 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) I'm not sure if `make tarball` is useful. I don't use it so it's not my problem but I don't want to support something that doesn't work well. For example, `make tarball` creates useless tarball for me: fujita@viola:~/git/tgt$ tar tjf tgt-0.9.9.tar.bz2 |head tgt-0.9.9/GPATH tgt-0.9.9/GRTAGS tgt-0.9.9/GSYMS tgt-0.9.9/GTAGS tgt-0.9.9/Makefile tgt-0.9.9/README tgt-0.9.9/conf/ tgt-0.9.9/conf/targets.conf Everyone has other files for other reasons. I don't think that `make tarball` is a good idea. You complained that git-archive handles only files in a git tree but it should not be a problem. You have your own git tree so git-archive should create a nice tarball for you. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
