creating multiple dist at once (was: Re: Patch: FYI: more doc updates)

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g at lrde dot epita dot fr>]

>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

[...]

 Tom> +By default Automake generates a @samp{.tar.gz} file when asked to create
 Tom> +a distribution.  However, some projects prefer different packaging
 Tom> +formats.  Automake accomodates most of these using options;
 Tom> +@ref{Options}.

This recall me a wish I had.  

I usually want to create both .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 for upload.
Unfortunately the following does not work:

% make dist dist-bzip2

It fails because dist will erase the dist-directory before dist-bzip2 is
run, but make still think there is not need to run distdir again.

Maybe there is a way to arrange the dist machinery to delay
the cleanup until all distributions are made?

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz