Hi all, I use autoconf for a software package. make dist is great for creating a source tar ball. 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.
I've tried making a source tar ball and compiling it and then compressing that. However, make install insists on recompiling the entire package if the user runs configure. I'm thinking of hand writing alternative makefiles to include with the binary release but I'm looking for a cleaner solution. Any suggestions. I've searched the web and autoconf documentation for the answer to this question. I apologize if I overlooked something obvious.
