<div dir="ltr"><div><div>If anything I can make a different line when doing the win32 contrib output. Not sure there won't be a problem with cross compilation though.<br><br></div>An other option would be to skip untar'ing the files we know have a problem.<br><br></div>Lastly, it would be nice if tar had an option to skip symlinks. I haven't found it.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Felix Paul Kühne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fkuehne@videolan.org" target="_blank">fkuehne@videolan.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Steve Lhomme <<a href="mailto:robux4@gmail.com">robux4@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> That seems odd to me to have symlinks inside a prebuilt contrib. It should<br>
> not install anything outside of the contrib folder. So even that's used for<br>
> some odd reasons, the impact will only be a slightly bigger contrib .tar.bz2<br>
> with symlink copied as real files. Or am I missing something ?<br>
<br>
</span>Yes, you miss that frameworks for Mac OS X are composed of symlinks,<br>
so replacing those with actual files would triple their size. Been<br>
there, done that, sorry, but not again.<br>
<br>
Sorry, this issue must be fixed within MSYS. IMO, it is perfectly<br>
legitimate to include symlinks in a tar archive.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Felix<br>
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