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Re: Files from gnulib
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Files from gnulib |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:00:29 +0200 |
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:26:06 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> CC: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
> address@hidden
>
> On 01/23/11 20:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > The program used to unpack the .tar.gz archives automatically renames
> > ant .FOO files to _FOO while unpacking, so that's not a problem.
>
> OK, so it sounds like there's already part of a solution here,
> in that files are automatically renamed to avoid the MS-DOS
> restrictions.
>
> How about if we expand on that solution, as follows:
>
> * Just before creating a tarball for MS-DOS, apply
> the following substitutions to the contents of all
> files that go into the tarball:
There are no special tarballs for MSDOS. People use the tarball from
the GNU FTP site. So this solution will not work.
> * The conflicting names in m4/* don't matter, for the same
> reason that conflicts in admin/* and tests/* don't matter:
> these files are not used in an MS-DOS build.
The files in m4/ still matter because you need to unpack the tarball,
and the utility that does that won't silently overwrite files due to
file-name clashes.
- Re: Files from gnulib, Paul Eggert, 2011/01/23
- Re: Files from gnulib, Bruno Haible, 2011/01/23
- Re: Files from gnulib, Stefan Monnier, 2011/01/23
- Re: Files from gnulib, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/23
- Re: Files from gnulib, Paul Eggert, 2011/01/24
- Re: Files from gnulib,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Files from gnulib, Paul Eggert, 2011/01/25
- Re: Files from gnulib, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/25
- Re: Files from gnulib, Bastien ROUCARIES, 2011/01/25
- Re: Files from gnulib, Paul Eggert, 2011/01/25
- Re: Files from gnulib, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/25
- Re: Files from gnulib, Stefan Monnier, 2011/01/25
- Re: Files from gnulib, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/25
- Re: Files from gnulib, Stefan Monnier, 2011/01/25
- Re: Files from gnulib, Paul Eggert, 2011/01/25
- Re: Files from gnulib, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/25