Thanks to all, John
PS: I really think that some folks come down a bit to hard on autotools, and I definitely don't want to go down the cdrtools-road with tar.. sorry.
Well, on thinking a bit more about this, its quite it bit more
complicated than I'd initially thought.. If --skip-old-files detects an
existing file, even though the archived object might be a directory, the
existing file could be of any type, so making a file-type distinction in
the warning message based only on the archived type doesn't really make
sense (one would still need to examine the existing object type
anyway). So, my feeling now is that the current --skip-old-files
behavior is appropriate.
