Hi Jim,
thanks for the patch!
* Jim Meyering wrote on Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:33:19PM CET:
>
> lzma-utils is morphing into xz, and will yield a beta (aka stable API)
> release of the xz package in the not too distant future.
> What do you think of adding support for xz in automake?
I think it is OK for master. Not sure about branch-1-10.
Please post tests/xz.test as well. Sorry I overlooked that earlier.
Thanks!
Ralf
> --- a/doc/automake.texi
> +++ b/doc/automake.texi
> @@ -8256,6 +8256,12 @@ frequently smaller than @command{bzip2}-compressed
> archives.
> Generate a shar archive of the distribution.
> @trindex dist-shar
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] @code{dist-xz}
> +Generate an xz tar archive of the distribution. xz archives are
@samp{xz} and @command{xz} ?
> +frequently smaller than @command{bzip2}-compressed archives.
> +The xz format will soon (early 2009) displace the lzma format.
@samp{xz} format ?
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] dist-xz
> +
