Re: Automake 1.11.3b test release

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi Bob.

On 03/28/2012 08:18 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Peter Rosin wrote:
> 
>> On an up-to-date Cygwin 1.7 install, nothing unexpected.  It's just the
>> old problem with lzma.test that is worked around with
>>
>>     export XZ_DEFAULTS=--memlimit=20MiB
> 
> Is there is a reason why Automake does not provide a suitable default
> which limits memory usage to reasonable values?
>
Yep: the compression with 'lzma' (already deprecated since some releases ago)
has been completely remove in favor of the one with 'xz' in the master branch
(which will become Automake 1.12).  And for that we should have a suitable
default already (courtesy of Jim Meyering).

Regards,
  Stefano