Re: tar and non-writable files in srcdir

Hallo Ralf! Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > While extracting libtool-2.1a.tar.bz2 (tarball of CVS HEAD) over an > already present source tree on Solaris: > | .. > | tar: libtool-2.1a/config/ltmain.sh: Could not create file: Permission denied > | .. > | tar: libtool-2.1a/m4/ltversion.m4: Could not create

Re: tar and non-writable files in srcdir

Hi Gary, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:07:48AM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > While extracting libtool-2.1a.tar.bz2 (tarball of CVS HEAD) over an > > already present source tree on Solaris: *snip* > > Should we avoid putting non-writeable files in the source tree because >

tar and non-writable files in srcdir

While extracting libtool-2.1a.tar.bz2 (tarball of CVS HEAD) over an already present source tree on Solaris: | .. | tar: libtool-2.1a/config/ltmain.sh: Could not create file: Permission denied | .. | tar: libtool-2.1a/m4/ltversion.m4: Could not create file: Permission denied | .. Should we avoid pu