* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 05:58:01PM CET: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> Which is one reason I'm hesitating to enable the option dist-lzma for >> the Automake package itself. > > I assumed that if dist-lzma was requested that if the lzma tools were > not available that the request would simply be ignored. Is that not > the case?
No. Without the Automake option `dist-lzma' enabled, a rule named `dist-lzma' exists, but there is nothing depending on it, and lzma is not used in the `dist' rule. If the Automake option `dist-lzma' is enabled, the `dist' rule (and thus also the `distcheck' rule) will require successful lzma tarball creation. The rationale here is of course: if the package maintainer is actually doing the distribution, then heck, it should fail if the needed files aren't built. This is perfectly symmetric with dist-bzip2 and all the other dist-foo options Automake has. Cheers, Ralf
