(automake-1.16.info)The Types of Distributions

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14.5 The Types of Distributions
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Automake generates rules to provide archives of the project for
distributions in various formats.  Their targets are:

‘dist-gzip’
     Generate a ‘gzip’ tar archive of the distribution.  This is the
     only format enabled by default.

‘dist-bzip2’
     Generate a ‘bzip2’ tar archive of the distribution.  bzip2 archives
     are frequently smaller than gzipped archives.  By default, this
     rule makes ‘bzip2’ use a compression option of ‘-9’.  To make it
     use a different one, set the ‘BZIP2’ environment variable.  For
     example, ‘make dist-bzip2 BZIP2=-7’.

‘dist-lzip’
     Generate an ‘lzip’ tar archive of the distribution.  ‘lzip’
     archives are frequently smaller than ‘bzip2’-compressed archives.

‘dist-xz’
     Generate an ‘xz’ tar archive of the distribution.  ‘xz’ archives
     are frequently smaller than ‘bzip2’-compressed archives.  By
     default, this rule makes ‘xz’ use a compression option of ‘-e’.  To
     make it use a different one, set the ‘XZ_OPT’ environment variable.
     For example, run this command to use the default compression ratio,
     but with a progress indicator: ‘make dist-xz XZ_OPT=-ve’.

‘dist-zip’
     Generate a ‘zip’ archive of the distribution.

‘dist-tarZ’
     Generate a tar archive of the distribution, compressed with the
     historical (and obsolescent) program ‘compress’.  This option is
     deprecated, and it and the corresponding functionality will be
     removed altogether in Automake 2.0.

‘dist-shar’
     Generate a ‘shar’ archive of the distribution.  This format archive
     is obsolescent, and use of this option is deprecated.  It and the
     corresponding functionality will be removed altogether in Automake
     2.0.

   The rule ‘dist’ (and its historical synonym ‘dist-all’) will create
archives in all the enabled formats (Note: List of Automake options
for how to change this list).  By default, only the ‘dist-gzip’ target
is hooked to ‘dist’.