"make dist" support

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

>
>   In message <Pine.LNX.4.30.0011040003480.29545-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.
> ac.uk>you write:
>   > gcc/Makefile.in (and some other files) seems to include some machinery for
>   > "make dist" (see targets distdir, diff etc.).  It looks like these are
>   > obsolete targets creating an old-style gcc-2.8 style distribution; could
>   > someone confirm whether these targets are no longer used in creating
>   > distribution tarballs and diffs and can safely be removed?
> That stuff is obsolete.  I would love a patch to remove all that stuff.

Already done, Mark Mitchell approved the patch.

I suspect there may be more unused junk in the Makefiles (and elsewhere in
the distribution) though.  For starters, there's protoize still in the
distribution but no longer built by default - it was suggested a year ago
that it would better move to a separate package.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk