build: create xz instead of bzip2 tarballs.

Suggested by Jim Meyering at
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2011-06/msg00012.html>.
* README-hacking (Release Procedure): Update example.
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Replace dist-bzip2 with
dist-xz.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 81691271842f78a543c8716dfb520f55edfb3fe4..dd0081dcb8a4083339fdf63a676b4b0c4fdebb25 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2011-07-10  Joel E. Denny  <joeldenny@joeldenny.org>
+
+       build: create xz instead of bzip2 tarballs.
+       Suggested by Jim Meyering at
+       <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2011-06/msg00012.html>.
+       * README-hacking (Release Procedure): Update example.
+       * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Replace dist-bzip2 with
+       dist-xz.
+
 2011-05-29  Joel E. Denny  <joeldenny@joeldenny.org>
 
        doc: clean up references to `Locations Overview'.

diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
index bd66a9bdb117c11c0fe850c43e7aee1f7fde8025..e56e04141a4eef7f81226da8300033b076d61267 100644 (file)
--- a/README-hacking
+++ b/README-hacking
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ Here's a brief reminder of how to roll the tarballs and upload them:
 *** put bison-2.3b.tar.gz # This can take a while.
 *** put bison-2.3b.tar.gz.sig
 *** put bison-2.3b.tar.gz.directive.asc
-*** Repeat all these steps for bison-2.3b.tar.bz2.
+*** Repeat all these steps for bison-2.3b.tar.xz.
 
 ** Update Bison manual on www.gnu.org.
 

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 98fded24a22f2c85f538e6d6e5f304c7f972d49f..ec204e70cd21cdf9e625341f4023c11d14ee43dd 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 # releases, we want to be able run make dist without being required to
 # add a bogus NEWS entry.  In that case, the version string
 # automatically contains a dash, which we also let disable gnits.
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 dist-bzip2]
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 dist-xz]
                  m4_bmatch(m4_defn([AC_PACKAGE_VERSION]), [[-_]],
                            [gnu], [gnits]))
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([lib/config.h:lib/config.hin])