BTW, somebody was nice enough to let mails to bugs-automake (not the bogus extra 's') find their way...
* Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:56:02PM CEST:
>
> Right. So why is:
>
> AMTAR = TAR_OPTIONS="$(TAR_OPTIONS)" ${SHELL}
> /home/behdad/src/git/fd.o/cairo/build/missing --run tar
>
> not backward-compatible then?
Because it breaks an external script that calls
TAR_OPTIONS=foobar make dist
Cheers,
Ralf
