On 11/24/2012 09:16 AM, Marko Lindqvist wrote: > On 2 March 2012 06:45, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> The Autoconf team is considering releasing only .xz files for 2.69; if >> this would be a hardship for you, and you need the .gz or .bz2 release, >> please speak up now. > > I just encountered new argument for providing .gz of autoconf also in > the future. > > I were updating automake version used in OpenEmbedded, and though to > switch from tar.gz to tar.xz package while at it. That failed because > of circular dependency. In short: building xz decompressor requires > automake. > If that is true, it must be a bug in the xz packaging process -- once you have the distributed xz tarball, you shouldn't need the autotools to configure and build xz from it. I think you should: - verify the problem you're seeing is real (it seems suspicious nobody else has spotted it so far); - if it is, report it to the xz developers. Regards, Stefano _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
