Re: make dist improvements

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Behdad,
> 
> unfortunately I'm still not fully through.  I hate to send replies in
> bits, but it's also bad if the delay is unnecessarily long.  So here
> we go with more bits:

Thanks Ralf.

> * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:14:46PM CEST:
>> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>> * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:22:54AM CEST:
>>>> Also may be a good idea to instruct tar to not record uid of the user 
>>>> making
>>>> the tarball?
>>> Is there any way of doing that portably?  Otherwise, the only choice I
>>> see is to factorize and do it for GNU tar only.
>> Not that I know of.  I can't even find how to do that with GNU tar.
> 
>  --owner=0 --group=0
> 
> You could make a custom rule and exploit TAR_OPTIONS:
> 
> my-dist:
>         env TAR_OPTIONS="--owner=0 --group=0" $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) dist


Thanks.  Done now.  Would be nice if automake did that already.  Or at least
just passed TAR_OPTIONS down, as in:

AMTAR = TAROPTIONS="$(TAROPTIONS)" ${SHELL}
/home/behdad/src/git/fd.o/cairo/build/missing --run tar

Or whatever the portable version of that is.

Cheers,

behdad

>> But
>> making tar understand some env var like the GZIP=--best automake already does
>> sounds easy enough, even if it only produces results in a few years. :)
> 
> You can override AMTAR (used by automake's rule for the v7 format), but
> TAR_OPTIONS has been part of GNU tar's interface since Ocrober 2000.
> 
> Haven't looked at the rest yet, sorry.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>