Workaround Automake assumed default to actually produce v7 tarballs

5 years ago · 28af7187e3
2 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/3
+++ b/3
@ -4,6 +4,9 @@

 	* runtest.exp, configure.ac, doc/version.texi: Update version.

+	* Makefile.am (TAR_OPTIONS): Explicitly select v7 tarball format
+	to work around Automake limitation of assuming that v7 is default.
+
 2021-04-20  Jacob Bachmeyer  <jcb@gnu.org>

 	* configure.ac: Set Automake options to use the ancient and
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = dejagnu
 export DEJAGNU

 # record all files in the distribution tarball as owned by root
-TAR_OPTIONS = --owner=0 --group=0
+TAR_OPTIONS = --format=v7 --owner=0 --group=0
 export TAR_OPTIONS

 EXTRA_DIST = ChangeLog-1992 MAINTAINERS dejagnu runtest \