Hello Matt, * Matt Rice wrote on Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:22:35AM CEST: > I noticed that autotools when running 'make dist' rely on subdirs > implementing a distdir target > which wasn't documented in the gnu coding standards, before making an > attempt at documenting it > I figured i'd ask if it is something that should be added?
this isn't really a gnulib question, rather an Automake one or a GCS one (there's a bug-standards list for the latter). Anyway, the distdir target (and the implementation requirement for a mixed Automake/non-Automake setup) is described in info Automake "Third-Party Makefiles" I'm not heavily opposed to documentation in GCS, but there is not a pressing need for this: packages built entirely without Automake should still cope fine without a distdir target. Also, I'm not sure if the semantics of distdir are ready to be set in stone forever; for example, we've changed some details here in the last couple of releases. Cheers, Ralf
