Dimitrios Apostolou <ji...@gmx.net> 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'. -- Jack