On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> wrote:
>
> In addition to gzip format our snapshots and releases have been using
> xz instead of bzip2 for a while.
Note download_prerequesites pulls .bz2 tarballs.
>
> gcc:
> PR target/69374
> * doc/install.texi (Prerequisites): Replace bzip2 by xz.
> ---
> gcc/doc/install.texi | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi
> index 64c1217e587..74232247d8b 100644
> --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi
> +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi
> @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ Note binutils 2.35 or newer is required for LTO to work
> correctly
> with GNU libtool that includes doing a bootstrap with LTO enabled.
>
> @item gzip version 1.2.4 (or later) or
> -@itemx bzip2 version 1.0.2 (or later)
> +@itemx xz version 5.0 (or later)
>
> Necessary to uncompress GCC @command{tar} files when source code is
> obtained via HTTPS mirror sites.
> --
> 2.50.1
