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Re: What's the make target 'diststuff'?
- From: Matt Rice <ratmice at gmail dot com>
- To: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 19:42:24 -0700
- Subject: Re: What's the make target 'diststuff'?
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Matt Rice <ratmice@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com> wrote:
>> PR gold/18200 complains that the release tarball doesn't contain the
>> bison-generated files, and suggests that it's because gold/Makefile.am
>> is missing the 'diststuff' target.
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18200
>>
>> My reading of the automake manual is that the EXTRA_DIST variable
>> should be sufficient; I find no mention of 'diststuff'. Where can I
>> find out about this?
>
> Hi Cary, thanks for looking at this,
> It's a binutils specific target invoked from src-release.sh in the
> top-level repo,
> I believe because of generation of multiple tarballs from one repo.
>
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=src-release.sh;h=40d0126a0a790c2b92d1695288d9c6afd3da0edc;hb=HEAD
I seem to recall now that automake has the target 'distdir' documented here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Third_002dParty-Makefiles.html
which may be a more standard way of achieving a similar end result to
the 'diststuff' target