update to latest from gnulib; drop gzip-compressed tarballs

[Jim Meyering]

Along with the drop-gzip patch, I've just pushed a commit
that updates to the very latest from gnulib.
I think some of Bruno's recent float test fixes
address some nagging ppc-specific test failures.

>From 28460826d3aa61aadd2db3acc9c63e50ce35b469 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 14:26:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] build: update gnulib submodule to latest

---
 gnulib |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib
index bd35a4e..244794a 160000
--- a/gnulib
+++ b/gnulib
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit bd35a4e10e52b9fbe25b7280c3c4d9ef4b144c8a
+Subproject commit 244794a7887f13d9cdb91fed96932cc479905b96
--
1.7.7.rc0.362.g5a14


>From e1c589ecd56a8ef89d1250d2e81de8847e97c69c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 14:25:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] 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.
---
 NEWS         |    6 ++++++
 configure.ac |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f7b142b..f50e61a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- 
outline -*-
   it is handling (SIGTERM, SIGINT, ...).  This is to support systems that
   implicitly create threads for some timer functions (like GNU/kFreeBSD).

+** 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 8.13 (2011-09-08) [stable]

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index aeca73f..8241b55 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/ls.c])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([lib/config.h:lib/config.hin])

-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 no-dist-gzip dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests])
 AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]) # make --enable-silent-rules the default.

 AC_PROG_CC_STDC
--
1.7.7.rc0.362.g5a14