FYI, I'm going to push these soon: >From ce02989641c4e2f1ecd52454328bdb929e97574f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:32:33 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] build: update gnulib submodule to latest
--- gnulib | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib index 2394a60..dc57f70 160000 --- a/gnulib +++ b/gnulib @@ -1 +1 @@ -Subproject commit 2394a603e7586e671226478e5b15d924c3841f42 +Subproject commit dc57f70a80411608fee719971cc758a00a8eab63 -- 1.7.8.rc0.35.gee6df >From 95157241b2ade7a7717d1ef910e79d2bfe19a51d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 16:29:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] build: stop distributing gzip'd releases; xz is enough * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Add no-dist-gzip. * NEWS (Build-related): Mention that we're dropping .tar.gz. --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ configure.ac | 2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2b06af4..4f4cfe7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ GNU grep NEWS -*- outline -*- because it can result in an "infinite" disk-filling loop. [bug present since "the beginning"] +** 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 2.9 (2011-06-21) [stable] diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 2e13064..0478d52 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ AC_DEFINE([GREP], 1, [We are building grep]) AC_PREREQ(2.59) dnl Automake stuff. -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_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h:config.hin]) -- 1.7.8.rc0.35.gee6df
