[Gllug] make dist - ignore CVS subdirs

[Peter Corlett]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 06:31:08PM +0200, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> Since this group appears to be all-knowing, somebody please answer the
> following - how do I get "make dist" to ignore all CVS subdirectories in
> the tree ?

Could you have provided any less context for the question?

Assuming a handmade Makefile, you should be able to use '--exclude=CVS' as
an argument to tar to skip the files. (Although this is probably a GNU-ism.)

If you used a Makefile-creator tool, you'll have to tell us which one.

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