Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Yes, probably something like that for now.
i'll put it in. > > +#Wait some time for bumping automake 1.11, which knows this. > > +lyxdist: dist > > + bunzip2 $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.bz2 > > + xz -9 $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar > > + ls -hl $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.* > > + > > I would rather do the following, which is probably faster. > gunzip -c $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.gz | xz -9 $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.xz negligible compared to the whole make dist time. > You might also want to drop the dist-bz2 option. i would rather let the old dist target untouched. if we want xz one day replacing bzip2 with xz is self evident for people unfamiliar with the whole machinery. pavel