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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2018-01-13 14:29:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2018-01-13 14:29:27 +0000 |
| commit | 19e2900bd399d1ba272afe8b5b50b1b29a948bbe (patch) | |
| tree | 89c915d4f856ed9241bbbe1ca9c8546b755b5809 /binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release | |
| parent | 3957a4963f38fb249eced6c880efacd22f10eb28 (diff) | |
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Update notes on how to make a release
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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: |