[GRASS5] GRASS packaging issues

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:31:01PM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:14:29PM +0200, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> > - the installation routine copies several CVS directories.
> Do you think of "grass5install.sh"? It anything else?
> Within GRASS' Gmakefiles there are various "tar" calls, unfortunately
> the "exclude" parameter of tar is not portable.

the copying of CVS directories happens when executing 'make install'.
IMO, if tar can't do the job cross-plattform it should be replaced
by alternative methods to install. AFAIK it is unusual to use
tar for installing anyway.

Jan

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