* Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:40:52PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> > my-dist:
> > env TAR_OPTIONS="--owner=0 --group=0" $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) dist
>
>
> Thanks. Done now. Would be nice if automake did that already. Or at least
> just passed TAR_OPTIONS down, as in:
>
> AMTAR = TAROPTIONS="$(TAROPTIONS)" ${SHELL}
> /home/behdad/src/git/fd.o/cairo/build/missing --run tar
Yeah. I'm considering that for 1.11. It cannot be in 1.10 because
it would break current setups that have an external script to set
TAR_OPTIONS (note the underscore BTW), or a rule like the my-dist one
above. Backward compatibility is a fine line. ;-)
Cheers,
Ralf
