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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2011-11-06 16:29:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2011-11-06 16:29:24 +0100 |
| commit | 95157241b2ade7a7717d1ef910e79d2bfe19a51d (patch) | |
| tree | d71c12010c9bb8c74299dd2df755adcfcba7da67 /NEWS | |
| parent | ce02989641c4e2f1ecd52454328bdb929e97574f (diff) | |
| download | grep-95157241b2ade7a7717d1ef910e79d2bfe19a51d.tar.gz | |
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ GNU grep NEWS -*- outline -*- because it can result in an "infinite" disk-filling loop. [bug present since "the beginning"] +** 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 2.9 (2011-06-21) [stable] |