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.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f7b142b..f50e61a 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   it is handling (SIGTERM, SIGINT, ...).  This is to support systems that
   implicitly create threads for some timer functions (like GNU/kFreeBSD).
 
+** 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 8.13 (2011-09-08) [stable]
 

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index aeca73f..8241b55 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/ls.c])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([lib/config.h:lib/config.hin])
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 no-dist-gzip dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests])
 AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]) # make --enable-silent-rules the default.
 
 AC_PROG_CC_STDC