Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] GRUB 1.99~rc2 released

[Jim Meyering]

Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> A source tarball for the new release can be found at:
>
>   http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.99~rc2.tar.gz

Hi Vladimir,

Congratulations.

In case you feel like also distributing xz-compressed files,
I've included a simple patch below.  Using xz -8e on your
release tarball compresses it to nearly half the size of the
gzip-compressed tarball:

    $ du -sh gru*?z                                                             
 :
    4.2M    grub-1.99~rc2.tar.gz
    2.3M    grub-1.99~rc2.tar.xz

The only part of this patch you'd need for the above is "dist-xz".
It's best to require 1.11.1, because there was a serious bug in 1.11.
Colored PASS/FAIL/SKIP is just a detail, as is the parallel-tests option,
but the latter is well worth it if you have many or long-running tests.
If you opt to use the parallel-tests option, be sure that your tests
are independent.

=== modified file 'configure.ac'
--- configure.ac        2011-04-20 07:23:55 +0000
+++ configure.ac        2011-04-20 10:24:38 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
-# Copyright (C) 2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010  Free Software 
Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011  Free 
Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # This configure.ac is free software; the author
 # gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE()
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests])
 AC_PREREQ(2.60)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([include/grub/dl.h])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADER([config-util.h])