On Mar 15, 2018, at 17:25, Adam Mercer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >>> master_sites gnu >>> -checksums rmd160 3dfd5d5aa037db5aae281829539eef328694cd75 \ >>> - sha256 >>> 988e32527abe052307d21c8ca000aa238b914df363a617e38f4fb89f5abf6260 >>> +use_xz yes >>> +checksums rmd160 8c2a91e8fc0595dbf4854be3cef4d14bb8c5e756 \ >>> + sha256 >>> 5d05bb38a23fd3312b10aea93840feec685bdf4a41146e78882848165d3ae921 >> >> This works right now, but it's very easy for this to cause problems in the >> future, because it means xz and xz's dependencies can't use automake; if >> they did, it would be a circular dependency and new installs would fail with >> a confusing lack of error message. > > Good point. I'll get a patch ready to switch back to the .gz as > circular dependencies are always a nightmare.
Well, I see autoconf already uses xz too, so I guess we can leave it for now.
