[PATCH 2/2] build: stop distributing gzip'd releases; xz is enough

[Jim Meyering]

FYI, I'm going to push these soon:

>From ce02989641c4e2f1ecd52454328bdb929e97574f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:32:33 +0100
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 2394a60..dc57f70 160000
--- a/gnulib
+++ b/gnulib
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 2394a603e7586e671226478e5b15d924c3841f42
+Subproject commit dc57f70a80411608fee719971cc758a00a8eab63
--
1.7.8.rc0.35.gee6df


>From 95157241b2ade7a7717d1ef910e79d2bfe19a51d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 16:29:24 +0100
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 2b06af4..4f4cfe7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ GNU grep NEWS                                    -*- outline 
-*-
   because it can result in an "infinite" disk-filling loop.
   [bug present since "the beginning"]

+** 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 2.9 (2011-06-21) [stable]

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 2e13064..0478d52 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ AC_DEFINE([GREP], 1, [We are building grep])
 AC_PREREQ(2.59)

 dnl Automake stuff.
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 no-dist-gzip dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests])
 AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]) # make --enable-silent-rules the default.

 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h:config.hin])
--
1.7.8.rc0.35.gee6df