Re: AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS vs. AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Sergey,

Sergey Poznyakoff <gray <at> gnu.org.ua> writes:
>
> Done. I have added dist-bzip2 to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, but then found out
> that it was removed in favor of dist-lzma a couple of days ago.

Where do you get that impression?  dist-lzma is a new Automake option,
but dist-bzip2 and some others, see
<http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Options.html>,
continue to exist.

> I'm not
> sure if this is right, I'd rather suggest to distribute all three
> compressed versions (.gz, .bz2, .lzma), at least for the time being.
> This will allow users to download the version that suits most their
> software/bandwidth requirements.

You can use more than one of the options, they are not exclusive.

Cheers, and please Cc: me on replies,
Ralf