#1947: Formaline does not archive Makefile CONTRIBUTERS and COPYRIGHT files correctly -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Reporter: rhaas | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version: development version Keywords: Formaline | -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Formaline's tarball for the Cactus flesh contains dangling links for Makefile CONTRIBUTERS and COPYRIGHT (most likely since the switch to a git based flesh repo).

There is not real simple way to fix this (unless we can expect gnu tar in which case there is using the {{{--transform}}} option) using tar options only. It is part of the bigger issue of how to handle symbolic links in Formaline.

A reasonable simple fix may be to create a temporary work dir for tar **copying** the content of Makefile CONTRIBUTERS and COPYRIGHT and making **symbolic links** for src and lib (no dereferencing is needed if they already **are** symbolic links).

An alternative is to use git its update-index command to add files under a different name and then to export the archive using git archive. This would rely on git which may be less commonly available than tar though.

This is a major bug since it means that Makefile is missing from the Formaline archive meaning one cannot compile the code using Formaline data alone.