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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2011-11-06 16:29:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2011-11-06 16:29:24 +0100 |
| commit | 95157241b2ade7a7717d1ef910e79d2bfe19a51d (patch) | |
| tree | d71c12010c9bb8c74299dd2df755adcfcba7da67 | |
| parent | ce02989641c4e2f1ecd52454328bdb929e97574f (diff) | |
| download | grep-95157241b2ade7a7717d1ef910e79d2bfe19a51d.tar.gz | |
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.
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 2 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ GNU grep NEWS -*- outline -*- because it can result in an "infinite" disk-filling loop. [bug present since "the beginning"] +** 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 2.9 (2011-06-21) [stable] diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 2e130644..0478d520 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ AC_DEFINE([GREP], 1, [We are building grep]) AC_PREREQ(2.59) dnl Automake stuff. -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests]) +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 no-dist-gzip dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests]) AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]) # make --enable-silent-rules the default. AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h:config.hin]) |