bug#13324: Improvements to "dist" targets (was: Re: EXTRA_DIST, directories, tar --exclude-vcs)

OTOH, what about distribution "tarballs" in '.zip' format? They don't use tar at all ... Time to deprecate them maybe? Is anybody actually using them? And while at it, what about the even more obscure 'shar' format? FWIW, I think they should still be supported. I see recent di

bug#13324: Improvements to "dist" targets (was: Re: EXTRA_DIST, directories, tar --exclude-vcs)

> that every tar (except maybe really ancient ones, can't remember, but we > don't care) supports the -style. It would be nice to verify this claim on as much systems as possible Certainly POSIX has always required supporting -options, which is some 15 years old at least. Or do I mea

bug#13324: Improvements to "dist" targets (was: Re: EXTRA_DIST, directories, tar --exclude-vcs)

That is already possible: I see. Given this, I propose merely changing the definition of am__tar to use variables. Something like: am__tar = $(TAR) $(TAR_OPTIONS) - "$$tardir" where the actual definitions of TAR

bug#13324: Improvements to "dist" targets

I'm re-copying this message to the relevant discussion on GNU debbugs, so that it will remain registered in our bug tracker. Please keep that address in CC in any further reply. On 01/02/2013 04:10 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Daniel Herring wrote: > >> On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Ste

bug#13324: Improvements to "dist" targets

On 01/02/2013 02:01 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 01/02/2013 02:58 AM, Daniel Herring wrote: >> On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> >>> OTOH, what about distribution "tarballs" in '.zip' format? They don't >>> use tar at all ... Time to deprecate them maybe? Is anybody actually >