On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
>
> I believe my only choice at this point is to forbid "make dist" if tar is 
> detected to be old (less than 1.29), and keep doing --hard-dereference. I 
> open to new ideas though. :-)

The attached patch solves the problem in a more elegant manner IMHO, 
so I plan to include this modified tar.m4 in my project.

Review is welcome, and feel free to include to upstream automake.


Dimitris