Re: minor fixes for make dist

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2017, Jack Kelly wrote:

> Dimitrios Apostolou <address@hidden> 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