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Automake generates rules to provide archives of the project for distributions in various formats. Their targets are:
dist-bzip2
Generate a bzip2 tar archive of the distribution. bzip2 archives are frequently smaller than gzipped archives.
dist-gzip
Generate a gzip tar archive of the distribution.
dist-lzma
Generate an ‘lzma’ tar archive of the distribution. lzma
archives are frequently smaller than bzip2
-compressed archives.
dist-shar
Generate a shar archive of the distribution.
dist-xz
Generate an ‘xz’ tar archive of the distribution. xz
archives are frequently smaller than bzip2
-compressed archives.
The ‘xz’ format will soon (early 2009) displace the ‘lzma’ format.
dist-zip
Generate a zip archive of the distribution.
dist-tarZ
Generate a compressed tar archive of the distribution.
The rule dist
(and its historical synonym dist-all
) will
create archives in all the enabled formats, Changing Automake’s Behavior. By
default, only the dist-gzip
target is hooked to dist
.