Override am__tar.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8c2644dcf7c987f7b5404818f4e64c998686485f..8d4d89ae638015eba6445325eaf7bc1b916a4046 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2006-11-12  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       * configure.ac (am__tar): Override automake's definition.
+
 2006-11-12  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        * autogen.sh: Pass --local-symlink option to all gnulib-tool

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 65be0bfdbf87d60c74b29370458db841e2564455..2f739744c4fb9df687ad9b459930d5a4de1a266f 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(build-aux)
 . $srcdir/version.sh
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(gettext, $VERSION_NUMBER)
 
+dnl Override automake's tar command used for creating distributions.
+am__tar='${AMTAR} chof - --owner=root --group=root "$$tardir"'
+
 dnl Checks for programs.
 
 dnl Checks for libraries.