Re: make dist improvements

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:40:52PM CEST:
>> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>> my-dist:
>>>         env TAR_OPTIONS="--owner=0 --group=0" $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) dist
>>
>> Thanks.  Done now.  Would be nice if automake did that already.  Or at least
>> just passed TAR_OPTIONS down, as in:
>>
>> AMTAR = TAROPTIONS="$(TAROPTIONS)" ${SHELL}
>> /home/behdad/src/git/fd.o/cairo/build/missing --run tar
> 
> Yeah.  I'm considering that for 1.11.  It cannot be in 1.10 because
> it would break current setups that have an external script to set
> TAR_OPTIONS (note the underscore BTW), or a rule like the my-dist one
> above.  Backward compatibility is a fine line.  ;-)

It still works with GNU make, right? Cause that automatically defines shell
vars as make vars, right?  We do a lot of things like this in cairo:

TARGETS = $(CAIRO_TARGETS)
TEST_ENVIRONMENT = CAIRO_TARGETS="$(TARGETS)"

This way a user can do either of:

  CAIRO_TARGETS=whatever make check

  make check TARGETS=whatever

Cheers,
behdad

> Cheers,
> Ralf
>