Re: Future autoconf package compression

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 11/24/2012 09:16 AM, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> On 2 March 2012 06:45, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> The Autoconf team is considering releasing only .xz files for 2.69; if
>> this would be a hardship for you, and you need the .gz or .bz2 release,
>> please speak up now.
> 
>  I just encountered new argument for providing .gz of autoconf also in
> the future.
> 
>  I were updating automake version used in OpenEmbedded, and though to
> switch from tar.gz to tar.xz package while at it. That failed because
> of circular dependency. In short: building xz decompressor requires
> automake.
>
If that is true, it must be a bug in the xz packaging process -- once
you have the distributed xz tarball, you shouldn't need the autotools
to configure and build xz from it.  I think you should:

 - verify the problem you're seeing is real (it seems suspicious nobody
   else has spotted it so far);

 - if it is, report it to the xz developers.

Regards,
  Stefano