[Users] Formaline

[Erik Schnetter]

On Apr 17, 2008, at 14:15:30, Ian Hinder wrote:

> 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?


It is in Formaline, in the file src/make.configuration.deps.

It could be the option -h.  Do you know whether -h is standard for all  
tar implementations?

-erik

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