From 9a45c1966716be7f02f8e20f014af720b69aa6fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:35:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] build: use dist-xz, not dist-lzma, cont'd * README-hacking: mention XZ utils * README-prereq: Add a FIXME comment. --- README-hacking | 10 +++++----- README-prereq | 1 + 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking index f51bb01..8333cd0 100644 --- a/README-hacking +++ b/README-hacking @@ -30,13 +30,13 @@ Later, a plain `git pull && make' should be sufficient. Valgrind is also highly recommended, if Valgrind supports your architecture. See also README-valgrind. -- LZMA +- XZ utils (successor to LZMA) -This package's build procedure uses LZMA to create a compressed +This package's build procedure uses XZ to create a compressed distribution tarball. Using this feature of Automake requires -version 1.10.1 or newer, as well as the lzma program itself. -Make sure you have the latest stable version of the LZMA Utils -from . +version 1.10a or newer, as well as the xz program itself. +Make sure you have the latest version of the XZ Utils from +. * First GIT checkout diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq index 7456114..91676f4 100644 --- a/README-prereq +++ b/README-prereq @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ getting the prerequisites for particular systems. # rpmbuild --rebuild http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/autoconf-2.63-1.fc10.src.rpm # rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/autoconf-2.63-1.fc8.noarch.rpm Apply the same method to install the lzma package. + [FIXME: mention xz when it's packaged] 3. The latest released automake (1.10.1) was not new enough, so we download and build automake-1.10a from its repository and make it available -- 2.7.4