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>>> A different angle might be to actually use a different tar format: >>> >>> https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Formats.html >>> >>> I would guess "make dist" is using the tar "v7" format, based on the 99 >>> character length limit for files. Most of the other formats have no file >>> length limit or a longer limit. >> >> Yes, we could also do that. > > Struggling to figure out how to do that; seems automake is very inclined > to use the old format... anyone with sufficient auto* skills to try and > upgrade the "make dist" to pass one of the newer --format= arguments to > tar? Reading the Automake manual (info (automake) List of Automake options) I stumbled on this: ‘filename-length-max=99’ Abort if file names longer than 99 characters are found during ‘make dist’. Such long file names are generally considered not to be portable in tarballs. See the ‘tar-v7’ and ‘tar-ustar’ options below. This option should be used in the top-level ‘Makefile.am’ or as an argument of ‘AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE’ in ‘configure.ac’; it will be ignored otherwise. It will also be ignored in sub-packages of nested packages (*note Subpackages::). This makes me think that Automake is simply configured out of the box to keep the file names as portable as possible (it doesn't mean it uses tar-v7 itself, IIUC, though I haven't checked). Seems a good thing to be as portable as can be, especially since 200 chars patch file names wouldn't look good in the sources anyway ;-). Thanks, Maxim
