Hello,

The attached patch adds ``gdb.tar'', ``gdb+dejagnu.tar'', etc, rules to 
the top level Makefile.in.  It does this by splitting the old do-tar-bz2 
rule into two steps: do-tar and do-bz2 (binutils uses this via the taz: 
rule).

The motivation behind the change is to reduce the overall time required 
when making snapshots and releases.  A lot of time was spent 
uncompressing or re-compressing .bz2 files.

GDB's snapshot process (trunk and 5.2 branch) has been successfully (but 
unofficially) using this patch for some weeks.

Once I've re-checked that the patch doesn't affect the binutils snapshot 
process, I'll check it in (gdb 5.2 branch and src mainline).

enjoy,
Andrew