Item11172: BuildContrib tar command doesn't dereference links, sets file ownership

While trying to build 1.1.4 beta a couple of issues were encountered

• Build.pm doesn't dereference symbolic links. The topic Development/BuildingARelease specifically says to build the final release using pseudo-install.pl -link default however the tarfile then ends up with links instead of files for the extensions. Need to add the =( -h / --dereference ) parameter to the tar command.
• Also when building as a normal user, the resulting tarfile contains the current users user/group ownership. The normal release distributions have user/group of 0, so are probably built by the root user. This can be resolved by adding the ( --group 0 --user 0 ) parameters to the archive command

-- GeorgeClark - 07 Oct 2011

--owner and --group options are not supported on FreeBSD or Mac OSX. Need to test and fall back to prior command if option is not supported. -h / -L options appear to be supported so not changing that part of the fix.

-- GeorgeClark - 27 Oct 2011

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