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Re: What's the make target 'diststuff'?
- From: Matt Rice <ratmice at gmail dot com>
- To: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 14:37:43 -0700
- Subject: Re: What's the make target 'diststuff'?
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com> wrote:
> PR gold/18200 complains that the release tarball doesn't contain the
> bison-generated files, and suggests that it's because gold/Makefile.am
> is missing the 'diststuff' target.
>
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18200
>
> My reading of the automake manual is that the EXTRA_DIST variable
> should be sufficient; I find no mention of 'diststuff'. Where can I
> find out about this?
Hi Cary, thanks for looking at this,
It's a binutils specific target invoked from src-release.sh in the
top-level repo,
I believe because of generation of multiple tarballs from one repo.
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=src-release.sh;h=40d0126a0a790c2b92d1695288d9c6afd3da0edc;hb=HEAD