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-rw-r--r--Admin/release-steps12
-rw-r--r--configure.ac5
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Admin/release-steps b/Admin/release-steps
index dab3956e7..0999eb25e 100644
--- a/Admin/release-steps
+++ b/Admin/release-steps
@@ -27,7 +27,12 @@ We assume that the following environment variables are set:
Then you will get a distribution tarball:
- gettext-$CURRENT_VERSION-*.tar.xz
+ gettext-$CURRENT_VERSION-*.tar.gz
+
+ If necessary, produce variants with higher compression (takes 7 minutes):
+
+ gzip -d -c < gettext-$CURRENT_VERSION-*.tar.gz | xz -c -e > gettext-$CURRENT_VERSION-*.tar.xz
+ gzip -d -c < gettext-$CURRENT_VERSION-*.tar.gz | lzip -c -9 > gettext-$CURRENT_VERSION-*.tar.lz
Rename it e.g. gettext-ss.tar.xz
@@ -154,6 +159,11 @@ We assume that the following environment variables are set:
# regenerated PO files, specify Makefile manually.
make -f Makefile distcheck
+ If necessary, produce variants with higher compression (takes 7 minutes):
+
+ gzip -d -c < gettext-$CURRENT_VERSION-*.tar.gz | xz -c -e > gettext-$CURRENT_VERSION-*.tar.xz
+ gzip -d -c < gettext-$CURRENT_VERSION-*.tar.gz | lzip -c -9 > gettext-$CURRENT_VERSION-*.tar.lz
+
** Upload tarballs:
gnulib/build-aux/gnupload --to ftp.gnu.org:gettext \
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 18ec18309..6ea950173 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
dnl Configuration for the toplevel directory of GNU gettext
-dnl Copyright (C) 1995-2003, 2005-2006, 2009-2010, 2015-2016 Free Software
-dnl Foundation, Inc.
+dnl Copyright (C) 1995-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
dnl
dnl This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
dnl it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -23,7 +22,7 @@ AC_INIT([gettext],
[bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([gettext-tools/src/msgfmt.c])
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.13 silent-rules parallel-tests tar-ustar dist-xz dist-lzip])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.13 silent-rules parallel-tests tar-ustar])
dnl Override automake's tar command used for creating distributions.
am__tar='${AMTAR} chf - --format=ustar --owner=root --group=root "$$tardir"'