Re: minor fixes for make dist
Dimitrios Apostolou <[email protected]>
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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