Re: Apple OS ACL files in libtool distribution tarballs

2018-07-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, Eric Bavier wrote: Hello Libtoolers, I noticed that at least the last two distributions of libtool (2.4.5 and 2.4.6) contain "._*" files in the tarballs. AFAICT these are from OS X's tar, which "uses AppleDouble files to store extended attributes and ACLs'. These files

Apple OS ACL files in libtool distribution tarballs

2018-07-17 Thread Eric Bavier
Hello Libtoolers, I noticed that at least the last two distributions of libtool (2.4.5 and 2.4.6) contain "._*" files in the tarballs. AFAICT these are from OS X's tar, which "uses AppleDouble files to store extended attributes and ACLs'. These files are only meaningful on OS X, and don't seem