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14.5 The Types of Distributions
Automake generates rules to provide archives of the project for distributions in various formats. Their targets are:
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dist-bzip2
Generate a bzip2 tar archive of the distribution. bzip2 archives are frequently smaller than gzipped archives.
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dist-gzip
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dist-lzma
Generate an ‘lzma’ tar archive of the distribution.
lzma
archives are frequently smaller thanbzip2
-compressed archives.-
dist-shar
-
dist-xz
Generate an ‘xz’ tar archive of the distribution.
xz
archives are frequently smaller thanbzip2
-compressed archives. The ‘xz’ format will soon (early 2009) displace the ‘lzma’ format.-
dist-zip
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dist-tarZ
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
.