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Re: emacs 21.3: -h flag to tar not supported on BSD/OS
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David R. Linn |
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Re: emacs 21.3: -h flag to tar not supported on BSD/OS |
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Sun, 11 May 2003 20:37:13 -0500 (CDT) |
>> While importing emacs-21.3 into BSD/OS 4.3/5.0 I found that Makefile.in
>> and leim/Makefile.in invoke tar with -chf. The -h flag is not supported
>> by BSD/OS's tar (which is just a front-end for pax).
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>> I do not see any symlinks in the distribution so I wonder why this flag
>> is there.
If you build for multiple architectures outside of the source tree,
the area from which you are installing can have symlinks into the
source tree. Without the -h flag, those symlinks get installed as
symlinks that don't make sense outside the build environment.