Recreating tarball
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-From a checkout of mraa you can do the following to 'generate' this tarball
+You can run the following commands to 'generate' this tarball from a checkout
+of mraa. It's important to not leave a .git directory as npm will then
+consider the tarball contains a full git tree. You also you need a top level
+dir which matches the npm pkg name so we create one with a symlink and add the
+'h' flag to tar to follow symlinks.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~{.sh}
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DBUILDSWIGNODE=ON ..
make npmpkg
-cd ../
-tar czv --exclude='build/*' --exclude='.git/*' -f /tmp/mraa.tar.gz .
+ln -s ../ mraa
+tar hczv --exclude='build*' --exclude='.gitignore' --exclude='.git' --exclude='build*/*' --exclude='.git/*' -f mraa.tar.gz mraa
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