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
>
