Keith Thompson wrote: > I don't know what "Makefile.maint" is for, but it is being invoked.
The GNUmakefile includes it. But other make programs do not. This allows the maintainers to place useful rules in the Makefile.maint which may include GNU specific syntax not available on other systems. These commands are only meant to be used by the developers, usually when wrapping up a release or other similar things. As far as I can see the gzip commands are only triggered by the my-distcheck target, maintainer-distcheck target, cvs-dist target, alpha, beta, major targets. It should not be triggered unless you are making one of those targets. If you are simply making the default target I don't think it should be called. To the bison maintainers, why is Makefile.maint distributed? I don't recall seeing other projects putting it in the release distribution. Usually it would only be seen if pulled from CVS. Perhaps it should be removed from EXTRA_DIST? What do you think? Bob
