Thanks for the help. I looked into it further and noticed that the src/RGtk2
directory was actually a symlink. The perl find() does not follow symlinks,
as invoked, but tar, as invoked, does. Thus, when the tar/untar effectively
copies the files, there is a mismatch with the exclude paths.

Is there some reason why the exclude paths cannot be calculated on the
untar'd version rather than the original package directory? If this sounds
reasonable, I'll submit a patch.

Thanks,
Michael

On 10/1/07, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> It does this via an exclude list which it uses to remove files from a
> staged build.  Printing out the exclude list (at ca line 232) should be
> informative. One possibility is simply that there is a permissions issue
> in deleting that directory.
>
> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Michael Lawrence wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > In my package RGtk2, there's a directory called 'src/RGtk2' that
> contains,
> > like all the other directories in the package, a '.svn' directory. It
> seems
> > that R CMD build is somehow missing that one '.svn' in 'src/RGtk2', even
> > though it excludes all the other instances of '.svn'.
> >
> > I've tried putting 'src/RGtk2/.svn' into the .Rbuildignore, but it does
> not
> > have any effect. I've also looked into the R CMD build script, but I
> can't
> > find where this problem might occur (but then again, perl is not exactly
> my
> > thing). Perhaps it has something to do with having a directory with the
> same
> > name as the package under the 'src' directory?
>
> Pretty unlikely.
>
>
> > Thanks for the help,
> > Michael
> >
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