On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Jim Meyering
<address@hidden> 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], [address@hidden])
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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