Re: dist-xz compression level

[Jim Meyering]

Pavel Sanda wrote:
>> Pavel Sanda wrote:
>> It was deliberate.
>> For my use, xz -9 is far too slow for anything except the
>> final "make dist" I run just prior to a release.
>>
>> For a release, I run this, via one of the
>> alpha, beta or stable targets in gnulib's maint.mk:
>>
>>   $(MAKE) dist XZ_OPT=-9ev
>
> Is it possible to setup this to be the default inside makefiles?
> (I use make dist only for the final release...)

Sure.
Create a GNUmakefile containing

  export XZ_OPT=-9ev

and just passing all other rules to the default Makefile.