Re: make dist improvements

[Ralf Wildenhues]

BTW, somebody was nice enough to let mails to bugs-automake (not the
bogus extra 's') find their way...

* Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:56:02PM CEST:
> 
> Right.  So why is:
> 
> AMTAR = TAR_OPTIONS="$(TAR_OPTIONS)" ${SHELL}
> /home/behdad/src/git/fd.o/cairo/build/missing --run tar
> 
> not backward-compatible then?

Because it breaks an external script that calls
  TAR_OPTIONS=foobar make dist

Cheers,
Ralf