I'm going through Coreutils GNUmakefile and Makefile.maint to identify useful rules. Some question pop up:
1) Is this rule generally safe? Does it assume GNU tar? Is there a real problem solved by this, or is it just "nice"? # Make tar archive easier to reproduce. export TAR_OPTIONS = --owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner Further, shouldn't automake set this, if it is safe? 2) The following is not safe, --rsyncable is a new feature. # Do not save the original name or timestamp in the .tar.gz file. GZIP_ENV = '--no-name --best --rsyncable' Perhaps this, and the previous case, should be moved to a m4 macro, to find out whether the parameters are supported or not. Thoughts? Thanks, Simon _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
