Re: How to make tarballs?

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From: Tom Tromey
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:00

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>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Haynes <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> writes:

>> Isn't writing tar files so they untar into the current directory considered
>> a no-no?

Tim> Probably. It's something that I've almost got into the swing of
Tim> with decent open-source auto{make,conf}-produced Stuff, that it
Tim> will create its own package-version/ directory, although I'm not
Tim> aware of any unifying directive.

The GNU coding standards mandate this behavior, and a bunch of other
things as well.  Automake automates this process to the extent
possible.

Tom

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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: How to make tarballs?
Date: 2000/03/24
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