I pushed the change below. Thanks. Happy hacking, Karl
P.S. I humbly suggest explicitly stating in the man page that no envvars are read, since that is a departure from the other common compression programs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- dist: document bzip3 support. More from https://bugs.gnu.org/73795 (automake-patches). * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions): add item for bzip3. Analogous changes throughout. * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-bzip3): bzip3 does not read any envvars; don't set BZIP2. diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi index 5cdf91f68..cd9e6c8ce 100644 --- a/doc/automake.texi +++ b/doc/automake.texi @@ -9443,6 +9443,14 @@ archives are usually smaller than gzipped archives. By default, this rule makes @samp{bzip2} use a compression option of @option{-9}. To make it use a different one, set the @env{BZIP2} environment variable. +@item @code{dist-bzip3} +@trindex dist-bzip3 +@cmindex bzip3 +@vindex BZIP3 +Generate a @samp{bzip3} tar archive of the distribution. Unlike the +other compression programs here, @command{bzip3} does not read any +environment variables. + @item @code{dist-lzip} @trindex dist-lzip @cmindex lzip @@ -11125,6 +11133,12 @@ Cause @command{dejagnu}-specific rules to be generated. @xref{DejaGnu Tests}. Hook @code{dist-bzip2} to @code{dist}. @trindex dist-bzip2 +@item @option{dist-bzip3} +@cindex Option, @option{dist-bzip3} +@opindex dist-bzip3 +Hook @code{dist-bzip3} to @code{dist}. +@trindex dist-bzip3 + @item @option{dist-lzip} @cindex Option, @option{dist-lzip} @opindex dist-lzip @@ -11365,7 +11379,7 @@ the source file. For instance, if the source file is These three mutually exclusive options select the tar format to use when generating tarballs with @samp{make dist}. (The tar file created is then compressed according to the set of @option{no-dist-gzip}, -@option{dist-bzip2}, @option{dist-lzip}, @option{dist-xz}, +@option{dist-bzip2}, @option{dist-bzip3}, @option{dist-lzip}, @option{dist-xz}, @option{dist-zstd} and @option{dist-tarZ} options in use.) These options must be passed as arguments to @code{AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE} diff --git a/lib/am/distdir.am b/lib/am/distdir.am index b214ab2f2..e21c5a7cc 100644 --- a/lib/am/distdir.am +++ b/lib/am/distdir.am @@ -345,8 +345,9 @@ dist-bzip2: distdir ?BZIP3?DIST_ARCHIVES += $(distdir).tar.bz3 .PHONY: dist-bzip3 +## bzip3 does not read any envvars. dist-bzip3: distdir - tardir=$(distdir) && $(am__tar) | BZIP2=$${BZIP2--9} bzip3 -c >$(distdir).tar.bz3 + tardir=$(distdir) && $(am__tar) | bzip3 -c >$(distdir).tar.bz3 $(am__post_remove_distdir) ?LZIP?DIST_ARCHIVES += $(distdir).tar.lz Running command: git commit \-q \-F \.\/vc\-dwim\-log\-gej4c3 \-\-author\=Karl\ Berry\ \<karl\@freefriends\.org\> \-\- ChangeLog + set +x compile finished at Thu Mar 13 14:39:59 2025
