A quick note so I can delete it from my desktop. In order to produce only a Bzip2 tarball with the Autotools, specially when running make distcheck, set the automake init call with these parameters:
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([no-dist-gzip dist-bzip2])
By the way I wonder if it's worth dumping bzip2 against xz.
Well, since neither is LSB:
ReplyDeletehttp://dev.linuxfoundation.org/navigator/browse/command.php
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/lsb
I'd go with xz :D
Interesting information, however the bzip2 requirement is only for the developper who prepares the tarball for distribution.
ReplyDeleteOk, so I just took me a few minutes to test the whole wondering-thing.
ReplyDelete$ ls -1sh xfce4-taskmanager-1.0.1.tar.*
416K xfce4-taskmanager-1.0.1.tar.gz
348K xfce4-taskmanager-1.0.1.tar.bz2
292K xfce4-taskmanager-1.0.1.tar.xz
And as you can see the result shows that xz >> bzip2 >> gzip :)