[PATCH 1/2] build: stop distributing gzip'd releases; xz is enough

[Jim Meyering]

FYI, no more gzip here...

>From 9fe91b20b7305d83486d73104ef8350a01dfcb71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 19:09:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] 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         |    7 +++++++
 configure.ac |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 43b73f1..566484c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ GNU parted NEWS                                    -*- 
outline -*-
   subtracts one sector from the specified value. With this change, it is now
   possible to create partitions like 1MiB-2MiB, 2MiB-3MiB and so on.

+** 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 3.0 (2011-05-30) [stable]

 ** Bug fixes
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 878b515..3915ac0 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ AC_SUBST([LT_CURRENT])
 AC_SUBST([LT_REVISION])
 AC_SUBST([LT_AGE])

-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_CANONICAL_HOST
--
1.7.8.rc0.35.gee6df


>From 18126915d78430590591229891f7a00f6f00b5b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 19:10:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] build: update gnulib submodule to latest

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

diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib
index bd35a4e..dc57f70 160000
--- a/gnulib
+++ b/gnulib
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit bd35a4e10e52b9fbe25b7280c3c4d9ef4b144c8a
+Subproject commit dc57f70a80411608fee719971cc758a00a8eab63
--
1.7.8.rc0.35.gee6df