Re: new snapshot available: sed-4.7.13-3c1e

[Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>]

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On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 10:08 AM Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Jim Meyering writes:
>
> > It's been a year since the preceding release, so this feels overdue.
> > Please give it a whirl and let us know how it goes.
> >
> > sed snapshot:
> >   https://meyering.net/sed/sed-ss.tar.xz      1.3 MB
> >   https://meyering.net/sed/sed-ss.tar.xz.sig
> >   https://meyering.net/sed/sed-4.7.13-3c1e.tar.xz
>
> Builds fine on GNU Guix master.  Log attached.

Thanks for testing/reporting.

> Would you be willing to also provide a GZIP compressed version of future
> sed releases too?
>
> Since since sed-4.3, only XZ tarballs were provided.  This is not a
> problem but still unfortunate; it makes sed-4.2 (2009) currently the
> latest version that we can use in our ongoing efforts to create a full
> source bootstrap of the GNU (Guix) System.
>
> For some background see this blog post
> https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/, the
> next reduction will remove programs like sed from the bootstrap seed.
> XZ can only be built after we have a fairly recent GCC and glibc.

Done via the attached.

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From 6c175df230cf9fb687491bbd5a046d97e61cfd77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 10:35:24 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] maint: once again distribute .tar.gz files

* configure.ac: Reenable distribution of gzip-compressed
tarballs, on request from Jan Nieuwenhuizen in
https://lists.gnu.org/r/sed-devel/2020-01/msg00013.html
* NEWS (Release): Mention this.
---
 NEWS         | 4 ++++
 configure.ac | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index edc3692..aab4775 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ GNU sed NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   in problems under certain fuse-like file systems.
   [bug introduced in sed 4.2.1]

+** Release
+
+  distribute gzip-compressed tarballs once again
+

 * Noteworthy changes in release 4.7 (2018-12-20) [stable]

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index aff4e23..ad734e5 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(build-aux)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([sed/sed.c])
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h:config_h.in)
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 no-dist-gzip dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests
                   subdir-objects])
 AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]) # make --enable-silent-rules the default.
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
-- 
2.24.0.390.g083378cc35