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build: stop distributing gzip'd releases; xz is enough
authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Sun, 6 Nov 2011 18:09:56 +0000 (19:09 +0100)
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Sun, 6 Nov 2011 18:09:56 +0000 (19:09 +0100)
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Add no-dist-gzip.
* NEWS (Build-related): Mention that we're dropping .tar.gz.

NEWS
configure.ac

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 43b73f1..566484c 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ GNU parted NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   subtracts one sector from the specified value. With this change, it is now
   possible to create partitions like 1MiB-2MiB, 2MiB-3MiB and so on.
 
+** Build-related
+
+  "make dist" no longer builds .tar.gz files.
+  xz is portable enough and in wide-enough use that distributing
+  only .tar.xz files is enough.
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 3.0 (2011-05-30) [stable]
 
 ** Bug fixes
index 878b515..3915ac0 100644 (file)
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ AC_SUBST([LT_CURRENT])
 AC_SUBST([LT_REVISION])
 AC_SUBST([LT_AGE])
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 no-dist-gzip dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests])
 AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]) # make --enable-silent-rules the default.
 
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST