Re: minor fixes for make dist

Dimitrios Apostolou <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches
Message-ID <alpine.DEB.2.20.1701201259220.7791@localhost>
On Fri, 20 Jan 2017, Jack Kelly wrote:

> 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'.

Indeed. And I can also see the routines in /usr/bin/automake, as it is a 
perl script. Thanks for pointing to the right direction!

Dimitris
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