Re: dist-xz compression level

2010-04-12 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
isn't xz extremely slw with -9? maybe it wasn't a bug, bit intentionally not used, as that huge extra amount of time doesn't result in that many bytes saved. is the compression level configureable somehow? Regards, Andreas

Re: dist-xz compression level

2010-04-12 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Am Sonntag 11 April 2010 21:37:13 schrieb Andreas Jellinghaus: isn't xz extremely slw with -9? maybe it wasn't a bug, bit intentionally not used, as that huge extra amount of time doesn't result in that many bytes saved. is the compression level configureable somehow? I did two tests

Re: dist-xz compression level

2010-04-12 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Am Montag 12 April 2010 20:31:22 schrieb Ralf Wildenhues: My idea would be to implement this for master, and revert the recent xz -9 patch on branch-1.11. Comments, criticism? if the environment variables can be used to set the compression, that is perfect for me. why write your own code, when

Re: dist-xz compression level

2010-04-11 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
isn't xz extremely slw with -9? maybe it wasn't a bug, bit intentionally not used, as that huge extra amount of time doesn't result in that many bytes saved. is the compression level configureable somehow? Regards, Andreas

Re: unconditional version of EXTRA_DIST

2010-03-04 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Am Donnerstag 04 März 2010 03:31:04 schrieb Ralf Wildenhues: ah. ok, so back to the drawing board for my plan with optional documentation (see the thread a week ago or so). You can use either of - wildcards, EXTRA_DIST = pattern* - automake conditionals, if COND EXTRA_DIST

create libraries with libtool, but don't install *.la files?

2010-02-24 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Hi, the combination autoconf/automake/libtool makes it quite easy to create shared libraries. but how can I install the file created as a single *.so file, but without any *.la file etc. the shared libraries we create implement a fixed plugin interface thus they don't need the normal versioning

advice for pre-generating documentation

2010-02-11 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Hi, we generate some docs with doxygen, others with a shell script using wget and xslt to download our wiki and create local html files from that). that mechanism is currently enabled with --enable-doc, off by default as it is time-consuming and usualy not wanted. the problem I have is this: *

Re: advice for pre-generating documentation

2010-02-11 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Ah, thanks. I didn't know about EXTRA_DIST. Is there some mechanism I can put a wildcard into automake files? for example it would be easier to specify *.html, as the script downloads all wiki pages, and thus new pages would be added automaticaly that way. also I wonder: what about builddir vs.