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-rw-r--r--man/Makefile.am13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/Makefile.am b/man/Makefile.am
index 8e9df082b..44eb3105f 100644
--- a/man/Makefile.am
+++ b/man/Makefile.am
@@ -19,10 +19,19 @@ dist_man1_MANS = $(MAN)
man_aux = $(dist_man1_MANS:.1=.x)
-EXTRA_DIST = $(man_aux) $(NO_INSTALL_PROGS_DEFAULT:%=%.x) help2man \
- $(NO_INSTALL_PROGS_DEFAULT:%=%.1)
+EXTRA_DIST = $(man_aux) help2man
MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = $(dist_man1_MANS)
+# The "$(VAR:%=%.x)" idiom is not portable according to POSIX, but in
+# practice it works with several make implementation (GNU, BSD, CCS make
+# from Solaris 10, Sun distributed make). In addition, since only
+# maintainers are expected to build release tarballs (and they should
+# use GNU make when doing so), it's not big deal if this won't work with
+# some dumber make implementation.
+EXTRA_DIST += \
+ $(NO_INSTALL_PROGS_DEFAULT:%=%.x) \
+ $(NO_INSTALL_PROGS_DEFAULT:%=%.1)
+
# Depend on ../.version to get version number changes.
common_dep = ../.version