gnutls 2.12.6

[Vincent Torri]

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> wrote:

> Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> ...
> > Here are the BZIP2 compressed sources:
> >
> >   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.12.6.tar.bz2
> >   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.12.6.tar.bz2
>
> Hello,
>
> Congratulations on a new release.
> Have you considered also releasing xz-compressed tarballs?
> When I recompress that tarball using xz -8ev, the result
> is 2/3 the size of the original, at 2.3MiB smaller:
>
>    6.9M    gnutls-2.12.6.tar.bz2
>    4.6M    gnutls-2.12.6.tar.xz
>
> If you're interested, just add "dist-xz" to the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> line in configure.ac:
>
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index e02ed71..9547e1e 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ AC_INIT([GnuTLS], [2.99.3], [bug-gnutls at gnu.org])
>  AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
>  AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
>
> -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.10 no-dist-gzip dist-bzip2 -Wall -Werror
> -Wno-override])
> +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.10 no-dist-gzip dist-bzip2 dist-xz -Wall -Werror
> -Wno-override])
>

I don't know the gnutls policy about autotools, but dist-xz has been added
in automake 1.11, which is not quite old

Vincent Torri


>  m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
>  AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
>
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