Along with the drop-gzip patch, I've just pushed a commit that updates to the very latest from gnulib. I think some of Bruno's recent float test fixes address some nagging ppc-specific test failures.
>From 28460826d3aa61aadd2db3acc9c63e50ce35b469 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 14:26:06 +0200 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 bd35a4e..244794a 160000 --- a/gnulib +++ b/gnulib @@ -1 +1 @@ -Subproject commit bd35a4e10e52b9fbe25b7280c3c4d9ef4b144c8a +Subproject commit 244794a7887f13d9cdb91fed96932cc479905b96 -- 1.7.7.rc0.362.g5a14 >From e1c589ecd56a8ef89d1250d2e81de8847e97c69c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 14:25:54 +0200 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 f7b142b..f50e61a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- it is handling (SIGTERM, SIGINT, ...). This is to support systems that implicitly create threads for some timer functions (like GNU/kFreeBSD). +** 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 8.13 (2011-09-08) [stable] diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index aeca73f..8241b55 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/ls.c]) AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux]) AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([lib/config.h:lib/config.hin]) -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests]) +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 no-dist-gzip dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests]) AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]) # make --enable-silent-rules the default. AC_PROG_CC_STDC -- 1.7.7.rc0.362.g5a14
