[CMake] 2.4.7 does not preserve symbolic links in the source distribution tarball

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-07-19 16:14-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> I have some relatively large data directories in my source tree which tend
> to be symlinked four different ways in the source tree to save disk space.
>
> However, the source distribution tarball generated by
>
> make package_source
>
> is essentially 5 times too large because the symlinks are replaced with
> (redundant) real directories and files.
>
> I believe this is a bug/misfeature in 2.4.7 since symlinks should just be
> propagated from the source tree to the source distribution tarball (to save
> download bandwidth of the tarball and the user's disk space.) I don't know
> whether this issue occurs for older versions of CMake since I have never
> before had symlinks in the source tree to contend with.
>
> If somebody can come up with a quick fix, I would be glad to test it out.

This is now bug 5430.

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

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