On 24 November 2012 10:58, Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. The problem certainly is in how OpenEmbedded handles the build. Its metadata has the xz -> autotools dependency. I've sent email to OpenEmbedded list too about the problem, but I don't know how hard it would be to get rid of that dependency. Obviously there's no such dependency problem with tar.gz autotools packages and gzip. - ML _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
