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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2018-01-13 14:29:27 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2018-01-13 14:29:27 +0000
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Update notes on how to make a release
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-rw-r--r--binutils/ChangeLog1
-rw-r--r--binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release21
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index ffcdf2e..94e1c75 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
2018-01-13 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+ * README-how-to-make-a-release: Update notes.
* po/binutils.pot: Regenerated.
2018-01-13 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
diff --git a/binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release b/binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release
index 97ea210..ce1af8f 100644
--- a/binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release
+++ b/binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ How to perform a release.
3. When branch day arrives add markers for the upcoming release to
gas, ld, gold and binutils NEWS files.
+ [If using the make-prerelease.sh script, check that
+ common.sh has the right values].
[make-prelease.sh command i]
[make-prelease.sh command C]
Likewise for all of the ChangeLog files.
@@ -54,28 +56,23 @@ How to perform a release.
7. Regenerate various files on both branch and HEAD by configuring
with --enable-maintainer-mode. No need to check in changes to
the autoconf/automake/etc files, but be sure the .pot files are
- up to date.
+ up to date. NB/ Remember to include gold and gprof.
8. Create an initial prerelease:
- a. Bump the version on the branch, and check this in.
+ a. Change the version on the branch (bfd/version.m4), regenerate
+ the files, and check this in.
- b. Create a source tarball:
+ b. Create a source tarball of the branch sources:
- git clean -f -d -x
- CFLAGS="-O -g0" ./src-release.sh -b binutils
- rm -rf $release_dir/proto-toplev
- rm $release_dir/binutils-$version
- rm $release_dir/binutils-$version.tar
- mv $release_dir/binutils-$version.tar.lzip ..
+ ./src-release -x binutils
c. Build a test target using this tarball.
d. Upload the prerelease snapshot to the FTP:
- scp ../binutils-$version.tar.bz2 sourceware.org:~ftp/pub/binutils/snapshots
- ssh sourceware.org md5sum \~ftp/pub/binutils/snapshots/binutils-$version.tar.bz2
- md5sum ../binutils-$version.tar.bz2
+ scp ../binutils-$version.tar.xz sourceware.org:~ftp/pub/binutils/snapshots
+ ssh sourceware.org md5sum ~ftp/pub/binutils/snapshots/binutils-$version.tar.xz
9. Send it to the Translation Project: