# HG changeset patch # User "Yann E. MORIN" # Date 1313010826 -7200 # Node ID dda4742972e2930e3e4988b4cfb64265fb5d826d # Parent b6bf20def07f404a1d74ebbf8c388cdca3235fed configure: add test for xz-utils Some upstream now release tarballs compressed with xz, along with the more traditional bzip2 and/or gzip tarballs. xz (and its predecessor lzma) achieves better compression, so is a good candidate to shorten the time it takes to download the source tarballs. Enable downloading xz-cmopressed tarballs if the user has xz-utils. Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" diff -r b6bf20def07f -r dda4742972e2 configure --- a/configure Sun Aug 14 16:06:20 2011 +0200 +++ b/configure Wed Aug 10 23:13:46 2011 +0200 @@ -453,6 +453,9 @@ has_or_abort prog=tar has_or_abort prog=gzip has_or_abort prog=bzip2 +has_or_warn prog=xz \ + kconfig=has_xzutils \ + err="xz-comoressed tarballs will not be used" has_or_abort prog=readlink has_or_abort prog=objcopy var=objcopy has_or_abort prog=objdump var=objdump