Hello again. This time a patch that allows Automake users to provide their own command-line options that will be passed to the 'tar' utility when creating distribution packages. This indirectly addresses bug#19615. The defect probably can't be fixed in a portable and secure way, so Automake can at least allow the user to specify the right options for him/her. Feel free to rename the options as needed (like prefix/suffix with "AM" or something). Regards, Bogdan Drozdowski -- Regards - Bogdan ('bogdro') D. (GNU/Linux & FreeDOS) X86 assembly (DOS, GNU/Linux): http://bogdro.evai.pl/index-en.php Soft(EN): http://bogdro.evai.pl/soft http://bogdro.evai.pl/soft4asm www.Xiph.org www.TorProject.org www.LibreOffice.org www.GnuPG.org