Re: Modifying CFLAGS for 'make distcheck'

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> If *that* were still a concern for a compression tool (as opposed to
> various vendor `tar' programs), then heck it should not be promoted at
> all for wider use.  No, I don't think each package using Automake should
> be turned into a regression test suite for lzma.  That's more fear,

Most of the compressors offer an option to test the compressed file. 
For lzma, gunzip, and bunzip2, that is provided by the -t option, and 
for zip, it is the -T option.  It is probably not a bad idea to at 
least verify that the same tool thinks that the package can be 
properly decompressed.

Bob
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