[GRASS-dev] Makefiles: tar failure on Solaris

[Hamish]

Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> 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.

for $GISBASE/etc/symbol/ I don't think that's a problem as it is
specifically a file repository.


Hamish