David Richard Larochelle writes:

> I use autoconf for a software package.  make dist is great for creating a
> source tar ball.

Autoconf is not involved in that.  That's Automake.

> But we would also like to release precompiled binaries.  The package
> contains a lot of support files so we would like a to be able to use
> the make install feature the copy the files.

./configure
make
make install DESTDIR=/tmp/temp-install
tar -C /tmp/temp-install -c -z -f mypackage-VERSION.ARCH.tar.gz .

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Peter Eisentraut   [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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