[GRASS-dev] Makefiles: tar failure on Solaris

[Glynn Clements]

Hamish wrote:

> > > > looking again at
> > > > https://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=5257&display=History
> > > > it seems that we have to remove all "tar" usage from Makefiles
> > > > (as already discovered months ago).
> > > > 
> > > > Attached my patch suggestion to lib/symbol/.
> > ... 
> > > 3. Use "test -f", e.g.
> > > 
> > > 	for file in symbol/demo/* ; do \
> > > 	[ -f "$$file" ] && $(INSTALL_DATA) $$file $(ETC)/symbol/demo ; \
> > > 	done
> > 
> > I have implemented this solution now in
> > lib/symbol/Makefile.
> 
> simplifying to making it easier to add new symbol groups (hopefully),
> 
> would this work:
> 
> 
> for group in basic demo extra ; do \
>     for file in symbol/$$group/* ; do \
> 	[ -f "$$file" ] && $(INSTALL_DATA) $$file $(ETC)/symbol/$$group ; \
>     done \
> done

Yes, but it still suffers from the issue that it installs every file
in the directory; there is no way to omit individual files from
installation.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>