X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Makefile.am;h=0e719fb53a15a7106dc463a895ac2bf0647bd103;hb=9fa93b2ea88d9d8baf9c494e9dc40aee3144f09a;hp=50977a2241d80fec4c5dc1502cbebb8e08ad6e9e;hpb=752099a7c55282635a686e3203a45405381c387d;p=lyx.git

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 50977a2241..0e719fb53a 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -25,6 +25,15 @@ EXTRA_DIST = ANNOUNCE INSTALL.autoconf RELEASE-NOTES UPGRADING \
 
 man_MANS = lyx.1
 
+#Wait some time for bumping automake 1.11, which can use dist-xz
+#directly without this code, which is to be removed.
+#xz has low compression by default, but can be affected via
+#export XZ_OPT=-9ev put somewhere in the makefile.
+lyxdist: dist
+	bunzip2 $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.bz2
+	xz -9 $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar
+	ls -hl $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.*
+
 rpmdist: dist
 	$(LN_S) $(srcdir)/lib/images/lyx.png . ; \
 	if [ -z "`type -path rpmbuild`" ]; \