symlink clients -> src/client messing up installation from src/library/Recommended

[glycerine]

Hi Simon,

not sure if you are creating this symlink, but the downloadable Rserve_1.8-1.tar.gz tarball from CRAN contains a symlink
clients -> src/client
which messed up my attempts to get it to install under R-3.1.1 on linux as a Recommended package during initial R build-from-source. The untar2 built-in function gets confused by the symlink and leaves us in the wrong /tmp directory after untaring, instead of the original Recommended directory, and the R build crashes. Arg.

Anyway, I realize this is more of a packagers bug, but if you have any influence, could you direct this note to who does the packaging? Thank you. I know not everyone wants Rserve as a recommended package (fools!) but I do. :)

Jason

[s-u]

This seems more like a bug in R :) The packaging is done by mkdist which creates that symlink. I'm not sure why that symlink specifically should confuse R, though. It's just a convenience symlink, really.

[glycerine]

If mkdist could be prohibited from making the link, installation would be smooth.