In preparing to make a GNU Parted release, I noticed that one
small part of maint.mk would malfunction.
Actually, it provoked a read-from-freed-memory bug in xz,
for which I've just sent a patch.
I've pushed this:
>From 2d8b95d62cc4d6524fa6c4dbc3138d88a5839159 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:05:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] maint.mk: invoke "make dist" with a working value of XZ_OPT
* top/maint.mk (vc-dist): Use no "-" in the value of XZ_OPT.
---
ChangeLog | 5 +++++
top/maint.mk | 2 +-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ace4236..55828ed 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-07-23 Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
+
+ maint.mk: invoke "make dist" with a working value of XZ_OPT
+ * top/maint.mk (vc-dist): Use no "-" in the value of XZ_OPT.
+
2009-07-22 Matt Kraai <mkr...@beckman.com> (tiny change)
Make fseeko.c compile on QNX.
diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index 073058d..c49fea3 100644
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ maintainer-distcheck:
# Also, make sure the NEWS file is up-to-date.
ALL_RECURSIVE_TARGETS += vc-dist
vc-dist: $(local-check) cvs-check maintainer-distcheck
- XZ_OPT=-9ev $(MAKE) dist
+ XZ_OPT=9ev $(MAKE) dist
# Use this to make sure we don't run these programs when building
# from a virgin tgz file, below.
--
1.6.4.rc1.189.g9f628
