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| author | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2012-01-03 16:12:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2012-01-06 14:54:29 +0100 |
| commit | 01c3294bac3b67004d208449fe9460fc3ab61ee4 (patch) | |
| tree | fb519e1b3a87b66c1b46af03e84e1939b880f2d9 /m4/tar.m4 | |
| parent | 741a0a1e94ce855fcd2109d5557a924e792b9320 (diff) | |
| download | automake-01c3294bac3b67004d208449fe9460fc3ab61ee4.tar.gz | |
dist: do not wrap calls to 'tar' with the 'missing' script
The `missing' script is meant to allow non-developers to build a
package in the face of slightly-skewed timestamps (as might happen
e.g. when the package is obtained from a VCS checkout rather than
from a distribution tarball). It is *not* the business of the
`missing' script to try to provide wrappers for all the maintainer
tools (in this case, to tool being a decent tar program). Such
wrapping of `tar' was not only inappropriate, but it was also
preventing the legitimate overriding (at make runtime) of the
`tar' program used in the creation of the distribution tarballs.
See also automake bug#9822.
* lib/missing: Don't try to specially wrap `tar' invocations
anymore.
* m4/tar.m4 (_AM_PROG_TAR): In the definitions of the `AMTAR'
variable, do not wrap the `tar' invocation with the `missing'
script anymore. Instead, allow the user to override the intended
tar program at make runtime, by defining the `TAR' environment
variable.
[$1 == v7]: Similarly for the definitions of the `am__tar' and
`am__untar' variables. Since we are at it, don't make them depend
anymore on the definition of the obsolescent `AMTAR' variable.
* NEWS: Update.
* tests/missing-tar.test: Remove, it's obsolete.
* tests/tar-override.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
Reported by Akim Demaille.
Diffstat (limited to 'm4/tar.m4')
| -rw-r--r-- | m4/tar.m4 | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Check how to create a tarball. -*- Autoconf -*- -# Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +# Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation # gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, @@ -22,10 +22,11 @@ # a tarball read from stdin. # $(am__untar) < result.tar AC_DEFUN([_AM_PROG_TAR], -[# Always define AMTAR for backward compatibility. -AM_MISSING_PROG([AMTAR], [tar]) +[# Always define AMTAR for backward compatibility. Yes, it's still used +# in the wild :-( We should find a proper way to deprecate it ... +AC_SUBST([AMTAR], ['$${TAR-tar}']) m4_if([$1], [v7], - [am__tar='${AMTAR} chof - "$$tardir"'; am__untar='${AMTAR} xf -'], + [am__tar='$${TAR-tar} chof - "$$tardir"' am__untar='$${TAR-tar} xf -'], [m4_case([$1], [ustar],, [pax],, [m4_fatal([Unknown tar format])]) AC_MSG_CHECKING([how to create a $1 tar archive]) |