* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
+ - The `lzma' compression format for distribution archives has been
+ deprecated in favor of `xz' and `lzip', and will be removed in the
+ next major Automake release (1.12).
+
- The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication will be removed in
the next major Automake release (1.12).
@trindex dist-gzip
@item @code{dist-lzma}
-Generate an @samp{lzma} tar archive of the distribution. @command{lzma}
-archives are frequently smaller than @command{bzip2}-compressed archives.
+Generate an @samp{lzma} tar archive of the distribution.
The @samp{lzma} format is obsolete, you should use the @samp{xz} format
-instead.
+instead. @emph{Support for @samp{lzma}-compressed archives will be
+removed in the next major Automake release.}
@trindex dist-lzma
@item @code{dist-shar}
# directory. We save the actual option for later.
$options->{'ansi2knr'} = [$_, $where];
}
+ elsif ($_ eq 'dist-lzma')
+ {
+ # Creation of distribution tarball compressed with lzma is
+ # deprecated, will be removed in the next major release.
+ msg 'obsolete', $where,
+ "lzma compression is deprecated; use `dist-xz' " .
+ "or `dist-lzip' instead\n";
+ }
elsif ($_ eq 'no-installman' || $_ eq 'no-installinfo'
|| $_ eq 'dist-shar' || $_ eq 'dist-zip'
|| $_ eq 'dist-tarZ' || $_ eq 'dist-bzip2'
- || $_ eq 'dist-lzma' || $_ eq 'dist-xz'
+ || $_ eq 'dist-xz'
|| $_ eq 'no-dist-gzip' || $_ eq 'no-dist'
|| $_ eq 'dejagnu' || $_ eq 'no-texinfo.tex'
|| $_ eq 'readme-alpha' || $_ eq 'check-news'
#! /bin/sh
-# Copyright (C) 2003, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2003, 2007, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# Check support for no-dist-gzip with lzma
-required=lzma
. ./defs || Exit 1
+errmsg='lzma.*deprecated.*dist-xz.*dist-lzip.*instead'
+
set -e
+echo AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = dist-lzma > Makefile.am
+$ACLOCAL --force
+AUTOMAKE_fails -Wnone -Wobsolete
+grep "^Makefile\\.am:1:.*$errmsg" stderr
+
cat > configure.in << 'END'
AC_INIT([lzma], [1.0])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([no-dist-gzip dist-lzma])
test -f $(DIST_ARCHIVES)
END
-$ACLOCAL
+$ACLOCAL --force
+AUTOMAKE_fails
+grep "^configure\\.in:2:.*$errmsg" stderr
+
+$AUTOMAKE -Wno-obsolete
+
+lzma --version || skip_ "lzma compressor required for the rest of the test"
+
$AUTOCONF
-$AUTOMAKE
./configure
$MAKE test
+
+: