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

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