The release of Automake 1.19 has been published, a utility for automatically generating makefiles that comply with the GNU coding standards.
In the new version, in addition to bug fixes, the autoconf macro AM_OPTIONAL_AUTOMAKE has been added, making the handling of specified 'dist-XXX' options optional when executing the 'make dist' command. In practice, this new macro allows skipping the creation of archives without generating an error if the required compression utilities are missing from the system. For example, the 'make dist' operation will not be interrupted if the settings specify dist-zip, dist-xz, and dist-zstd, but the zip, xz, and zstd utilities cannot be found.
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