Re: The drawbacks of the --symlink option

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Bruno,

* Bruno Haible wrote on Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 02:25:24PM CEST:
> gnulib-tool's --symlink option [...]

>   2) "tar cfvz" creates a tarball which is not self-contained. It happened
>      twice to me today: I created a tarball of coreutils, transferred it to
>      another system for testing, and it didn't work because the symlinks
>      which point to a partition not available on that other system.
>   3) Other manipulations a maintainer normally does (chmod -R or others)
>      might not work well with symlinks.

Both of these are solved by
  make dist

I don't think I ever create tarballs any differently (I have no
intention to pack some src/srcfile-changed.c that doesn't belong in the
tarball), and I get mildly upset if a maintainer thinks this target is
reserved for him alone, i.e., by requiring cvs write access to succeed.

Cheers,
Ralf