Re: dist-xz compression level

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, 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...)

Some of us use 'make distcheck' regularly as a test case, and for 
periodic development snapshots.

Since Automake passes through makefile content, it is easy enough to 
add a project-specific 'make release' target which adds the XZ_OPT 
option and invokes 'make dist' or 'make distcheck'.  Overriding an 
already set makefile variable is likely not portable.

Bob
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