Pavel Sanda wrote: >> Pavel Sanda wrote: >> 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 > > Is it possible to setup this to be the default inside makefiles? > (I use make dist only for the final release...)
Sure. Create a GNUmakefile containing export XZ_OPT=-9ev and just passing all other rules to the default Makefile.