On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 02:48:49PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I propose to build release tarballs from clean checked out source, and
> > to set file timestamps right after checkout, e.g.
> > 
> > git clone /path/to/strace.git &&
> > cd strace &&
> > git-set-file-times &&
> > autoreconf -i &&
> > ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode &&
> > TAR_OPTIONS='--owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner --mode=go-w,go+rX' make 
> > distcheck
> 
> Why don't you put that into a script

Yes, I'm going to put that into a script.

> or make rule that starts with
> "git archive $TAG | tar xf - -C tmpdir"?

git archive won't work well with --enable-maintainer-mode due to
gitlog-to-changelog.

> > Maybe we could sacrifice portability and add this TAR_OPTIONS definition to
> > Makefile.am
> 
> Yes, please do.  Portability is not an issue inside "if MAINTAINER_MODE".
> Unpacking the dist, configure --enable-maintainer-mode + make distcheck
> should match what we do for creating the official tarball.

Done.


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