Pavel Sanda wrote: > the newly added dist-xz target produce worse compressed archives > than lzma-dist. The reason is that automake call lzma with > best compression while it won't use -9 level for xz. > Is this intention or bug?
It was deliberate. For my use, xz -9 is far too slow for anything except the final "make dist" I run just prior to a release. For a release, I run this, via one of the alpha, beta or stable targets in gnulib's maint.mk: $(MAKE) dist XZ_OPT=-9ev
