Re: Removing Mac OS X resource forks from distribution tarballs

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Dave,

* Dave Hart wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:06:02PM CEST:
> Right, one approach would be to run a dist-hook which strips all
> resource forks from distdir files.
> 
> An equally effective approach which Automake could potentially handle
> generally on Darwin would be to instruct tar to ignore resource forks
> when creating the tar file.

Please show how that would work.

> Or, if Darwin's tar can't do that but can
> extract resource forks as if your filesystem didn't support them,
> Automake could round-trip to remove them on Darwin (tar, extract with
> resource forks named ._filename, find | xargs to rm the ._* files, tar
> again).

That would incur additional cost the size of the whole source tree, not
just the size of the resource forks.  To me, that seems prohibitive for
large source trees, and moreso for all trees not affected, or not on
Darwin.

Thanks,
Ralf