Increase the default compression level to 9 from 6. This also increases decompression memory requirements from 9 MB to 65 MB. --- The resulting tarball is 880 kB smaller [10.5 MB] Level 8 requires 33 MB and saves 520 kB [10.8 MB] Level 7 requires 17 MB and saves 170 kB [11.2 MB] Compression time is not much different since we're already using --extreme. The Linux kernel also uses -9, but the tarball is 8x our size. cfg.mk | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk index e93114c..ebafb0f 100644 --- a/cfg.mk +++ b/cfg.mk @@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ # along with this program. If not, see # <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>;. +XZ_OPT ?= -9e +export XZ_OPT + # Use alpha.gnu.org for alpha and beta releases. # Use ftp.gnu.org for major releases. gnu_ftp_host-alpha = alpha.gnu.org -- 2.7.3