* Dave Hart wrote on Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:46:56AM CEST: > Apparently, > there is no command-line switch to disable generation of ._ > psuedofiles in tarballs, but there is an undocumented environment > variable that so modifies tar behavior, > COPY_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES_DISABLE=true. For reasons unknown outside the > bowels of One Infinite Loop, this was renamed to the > far-less-appropriate COPYFILE_DISABLE as of the Leopard release of Mac > OS X. [1] > > When the build triplet matches *-apple-darwin*, Automake could include > in the distdir target code to set both of the undocumented environment > variables to true. That presumes no Automake clients find the > extended attributes and resource forks in tarballs valuable.
Right. And since we don't know that (well, at least I don't), it would be prudent to make it configurable. Well, we can just say that the poor Mac users can configure it by setting COPY_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES_DISABLE and/or COPYFILE_DISABLE in their environment in their shell startup script, and stop worrying about any changes to Automake. ;-) Thanks, Ralf > [1] http://norman.walsh.name/2008/02/22/tar
