[Users] Formaline

[Ian Hinder]

Erik Schnetter wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2008, at 12:49:22, Ian Hinder wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using the Formaline thorn to store a copy of my Cactus source tree
>> in my output directories.
>>
>> In my source tree, I have some thorns which are actually symlinked from
>> outside the tree.
>>
>> Formaline faithfully stores the symlinks, but not the targets of the
>> symlink.  Would it be better to dereference symlinks automatically, or
>> to have a parameter to do this?
> 
> 
> Yes, that should happen automatically.  find or tar probably have
> options for this.  Are you using GNU tar?

This is on Ranger, and yes, it seem to be GNU tar.  I couldn't find
where in the Formaline thorn the tarballs are created - I assumed it was
some script which is invoked during the build process, but I couldn't
find anything.  Is it in Formaline or in Cactus?

-- 
Ian Hinder
hinder at gravity.psu.edu
http://www.gravity.psu.edu/~hinder