--- automake.texi.orig 2008-11-23 09:35:46.000000000 +0100 +++ automake.texi 2008-12-16 00:44:56.000000000 +0100 @@ -1113,13 +1113,13 @@ @dots{} ~/amhello-1.0 % @kbd{cd ~/inst} ~/inst % @kbd{find . -type f -print > ../files.lst} -~/inst % @kbd{tar zcvf ~/amhello-1.0-i686.tar.gz `cat ../file.lst`} +~/inst % @kbd{tar zcvf ~/amhello-1.0-i686.tar.gz `cat ../files.lst`} ./usr/bin/hello ./usr/share/doc/amhello/README @end example After this example, @code{amhello-1.0-i686.tar.gz} is ready to be -uncompressed in @file{/} on many hosts. (Using @code{`cat ../file.lst`} +uncompressed in @file{/} on many hosts. (Using @code{`cat ../files.lst`} instead of @samp{.} as argument for @command{tar} avoids entries for each subdirectory in the archive: we would not like @command{tar} to restore the modification time of @file{/}, @file{/usr/}, etc.)