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Re: tar and non-writable files in srcdir
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: tar and non-writable files in srcdir |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:14:25 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
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