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| author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2020-05-25 18:20:01 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2020-05-25 18:20:01 -0700 |
| commit | 14ac16ecda54e181b6ed56678b1ba9761e245b8f (patch) | |
| tree | b4fbd1997cff7f97d9d63352f0b8d3e922f94813 | |
| parent | 04567be6e90beb62d07aaf981300a8d2e831fe90 (diff) | |
| download | automake-14ac16ecda54e181b6ed56678b1ba9761e245b8f.tar.gz | |
docs: TAR envvar overrides "tar" for make dist.
This change finishes https://bugs.gnu.org/9822.
* doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): mention that
environment variable TAR overrides "tar".
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/automake.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi index 7cc7bcbca..332cac153 100644 --- a/doc/automake.texi +++ b/doc/automake.texi @@ -8422,10 +8422,16 @@ for how these variables get their values, from either defaults or explicit values -- it's slightly trickier than one would expect). More precisely the gzipped @code{tar} file is named @samp{$@{PACKAGE@}-$@{VERSION@}.tar.gz}. + @vindex GZIP_ENV You can use the @command{make} variable @code{GZIP_ENV} to control how gzip is run. The default setting is @option{--best}. +@c See automake #9822. +@vindex TAR +You can set the environment variable @code{TAR} to override the tar +program used; it defaults to @code{tar}. + @cindex @code{m4_include}, distribution @cindex @code{include}, distribution @acindex m4_include |