Support building the distribution .tar file on platforms with limited

argument list length. This requires Gnu-tar. As we use the non-standard
"tardy" software anyway, it doesn't hurt too much to require Gnu-tar.
"make dist" will probably only be used by team-members anyway.
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diff --git a/Makefile.org b/Makefile.org
index e1c39a2d5a1bdf9ebbc2e188bf1694d91a376a44..a3f99840257d202e6875683e8792d4577e9730ac 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.org
+++ b/Makefile.org
@@ -644,13 +644,19 @@ TABLE: Configure
 
 update: depend errors stacks util/libeay.num util/ssleay.num crypto/objects/obj_dat.h TABLE
 
+# Build distribution tar-file. As the list of files returned by "find" is
+# pretty long, on several platforms a "too many arguments" error or similar
+# would occur. Therefore the list of files is temporarily stored into a file
+# and read directly, requiring GNU-Tar. Call "make TAR=gtar dist" if the normal
+# tar does not support the --files-from option.
 tar:
-       @$(TAR) $(TARFLAGS) -cvf - \
-               `find * \! -path CVS/\* \! -path \*/CVS/\* \! -name CVS \! -name .cvsignore \! -name STATUS \! -name TABLE | sort` |\
+       find * \! -path CVS/\* \! -path \*/CVS/\* \! -name CVS \! -name .cvsignore \! -name STATUS \! -name TABLE | sort > ../$(TARFILE).list; \
+       $(TAR) $(TARFLAGS) --files-from ../$(TARFILE).list -cvf - | \
        tardy --user_number=0  --user_name=openssl \
              --group_number=0 --group_name=openssl \
              --prefix=openssl-$(VERSION) - |\
        gzip --best >../$(TARFILE).gz; \
+       rm -f ../$(TARFILE).list; \
        ls -l ../$(TARFILE).gz
 
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