[Rd] ~ files not excluded from build (PR#3071)
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Sat May 24 11:42:31 MEST 2003
On Thu, 22 May 2003, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> ross at biostat.ucsf.edu wrote:
> > My docs say files ending in ~ are excluded by default from R CMD build.
> > Doesn't look that way to me. I got them with 1.6.2 and 1.7.0.
> > My documenation is 1.6.0 (that is, the one saying *~ is excluded).
> >
> > I have no .Rbuildignore of my own.
>
> The exclude features have worked for me on Linux but never on Solaris.
> Somewhere the documentation says that a tar newer than 1.13 is needed.
> This is available with versions of Linux, but is a bit of a problem on
> other systems since the latest version on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ is
> 1.13.
Look on a mirror of the site alpha.gnu.org.
It's a known bug in GNU tar. The `alpha' version tar-1.13.25 fixes it,
and is already 18 months old (1.13 is nearly 4 years old): makes one
wonder if GNU tar is being maintained.
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