"MrC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This doesn't seem appropriate, and is going to bite a lot of software
> distributors and builders.
I agree. It appears to be a bug introduced in this patch:
2007-03-30 Sergey Poznyakoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* src/common.h (transform_name_fp): Change signature
(transform_member_name): New function
* src/extract.c (extract_link, extract_symlink): Use
transform_member_name instead of safer_name_suffix so that
--transform and --strip-components affect links as well.
* src/list.c (transform_member_name): New function
(decode_header): Use transform_member_name
* src/names.c (all_names_found): Remove check for
matching_flags.
* NEWS: Update
* TODO: Update
* bootstrap (slurp): Remove any occurrences of $bt from the
generated gnulib.mk
* src/incremen.c: Do not include mkdtemp.h
As your example shows, it's not so simple as blindly applying
--strip-components values to every link that comes in. Perhaps
absolute links should be stripped, but certainly a relative symbolic
link within the tree should not be stripped.
