Re: minor fixes for make dist

Jack Kelly <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches
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Dimitrios Apostolou <[email protected]> writes:

> By the way, it seems I'm missing an important piece of the puzzle
> regarding how automake operates. Can someone explain the following?
>
>  ?LZIP?DIST_TARGETS += dist-lzip
>  ?XZ?DIST_TARGETS += dist-xz
>  ?SHAR?DIST_TARGETS += dist-shar
>  ?BZIP2?DIST_TARGETS += dist-bzip2
>  ?GZIP?DIST_TARGETS += dist-gzip
>  ?ZIP?DIST_TARGETS += dist-zip
>  ?COMPRESS?DIST_TARGETS += dist-tarZ
>
> What is this syntax? I can't seem to find it in the manual.

It seems to be an internal thing used at `Makefile.in' generation
time. See `sub transform' in `automake.in'.

-- Jack
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