Re: make dist improvements

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * 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

That's what I understood.  But if make imports env vars as make vars, doesn't
the $(TAR_OPTIONS) in the proposed AMTAR definition pick up the user's set
TAR_OPTIONS env var and things continue to work?

behdad

> Cheers,
> Ralf
>