Re: tar and non-writable files in srcdir

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Gary,

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:07:48AM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > While extracting libtool-2.1a.tar.bz2 (tarball of CVS HEAD) over an
> > already present source tree on Solaris:
*snip*
> > Should we avoid putting non-writeable files in the source tree because
> > of this?
> 
> No, unpacking over an existing tree is a bad idea.  What if the objects in the
> existing tree were compiled after the sources were put in the tarball?

Oh.  Good point.  :)
BTW, I do issue `make clean; make' then, but still.

> > Why are we making them non-writeable in the first place?
> 
> To remind patch authors to edit the source instead of the generated files.

ACK.

Thanks for putting me back on track,
Ralf