Avoid relying on non-standard tar `z' option.

Turn on best compression for creating the archive.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/makedist b/makedist
index c60c9cc80a..892fdea38a 100755
--- a/makedist
+++ b/makedist
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ VER=$1 ; shift
 MY_OLDPWD=`pwd`
 
 # the destination .tar.gz file
-ARCHIVE=$MY_OLDPWD/$PKG-$VER.tar.gz
+ARCHIVE=$MY_OLDPWD/$PKG-$VER.tar
 
 # temporary directory used to check out files from CVS
 DIR=$PKG-$VER
@@ -127,11 +127,12 @@ done
 
 cd $MY_OLDPWD
 $ECHO_N "makedist: making gzipped tar archive...$ECHO_C"
-tar czf $ARCHIVE $PKG-$VER || exit 8
+tar cf $ARCHIVE $PKG-$VER || exit 8
+gzip -9 $ARCHIVE || exit 9
 echo ""
 
 $ECHO_N "makedist: cleaning up...$ECHO_C"
-rm -rf $DIRPATH || exit 9
+rm -rf $DIRPATH || exit 10
 echo ""
 
 exit 0