* man/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Here, portability issues of the employed idiom. Reformat the definition a little while at it.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <[email protected]> --- man/Makefile.am | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/Makefile.am b/man/Makefile.am index 8e9df08..44eb310 100644 --- a/man/Makefile.am +++ b/man/Makefile.am @@ -19,10 +19,19 @@ dist_man1_MANS = $(MAN) man_aux = $(dist_man1_MANS:.1=.x) -EXTRA_DIST = $(man_aux) $(NO_INSTALL_PROGS_DEFAULT:%=%.x) help2man \ - $(NO_INSTALL_PROGS_DEFAULT:%=%.1) +EXTRA_DIST = $(man_aux) help2man MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = $(dist_man1_MANS) +# The "$(VAR:%=%.x)" idiom is not portable according to POSIX, but in +# practice it works with several make implementation (GNU, BSD, CCS make +# from Solaris 10, Sun distributed make). In addition, since only +# maintainers are expected to build release tarballs (and they should +# use GNU make when doing so), it's not big deal if this won't work with +# some dumber make implementation. +EXTRA_DIST += \ + $(NO_INSTALL_PROGS_DEFAULT:%=%.x) \ + $(NO_INSTALL_PROGS_DEFAULT:%=%.1) + # Depend on ../.version to get version number changes. common_dep = ../.version -- 1.7.12
