On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Aug 2025, Richard Biener wrote: > > 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. > > Hmm, how do we best go about that? > > I had checked and https://gcc.gnu.org/ftp/gcc/releases/gcc-14.3.0/ and > others really only have .gzip and .xz downloads, and our snapshots come > in .xz format only. > > So .bz2 is only used by some of our dependencies which people may (when > using download_prerequisites) or may not (when people use their system's > package manager) obtain in that source form. > > So for our doc/install.texi I'm tempted to say we're good? (We are > generally not listing the dependencies of our dependencies). Or do you > have something in mind?
I'd say we should document that using ./contrib/download_prerequesites imposes additional requirements and list those? > > Gerald
