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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2009-07-11 10:40:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2009-07-11 10:40:30 +0000 |
| commit | 54aa48feb74a8dd6a6734fd25c3cf808da1a1de9 (patch) | |
| tree | 1752ac1cc700a3455022f515c413809d90472631 /admin/make-tarball.txt | |
| parent | 1639ee1d5e41cfbd8a0b74a0c8db3de3ae19b1ee (diff) | |
| download | emacs-54aa48feb74a8dd6a6734fd25c3cf808da1a1de9.tar.gz | |
Add a note about bumping the value of
customize-changed-options-previous-release.
Diffstat (limited to 'admin/make-tarball.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | admin/make-tarball.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt index 4d809045c63..0a2eb55e10c 100644 --- a/admin/make-tarball.txt +++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt @@ -22,21 +22,26 @@ For each step, check for possible errors. For a pretest, start at version .90. After .99, use .990 (so that it sorts). -5. rm configure; autoconf + If needed, increment the value of the variable + `customize-changed-options-previous-release' in cus-edit.el to + refer to a newer release of Emacs. (This is probably needed only + when preparing a major Emacs release, or branching for it.) + +5. rm configure; autoconf Patch configure: See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-02/msg00851.html - make bootstrap + make bootstrap 6. Commit configure, README, doc/emacs/emacs.texi, - doc/lispref/elisp.texi, etc/AUTHORS, lisp/version.el, - nt/emacs.rc. Copy lisp/loaddefs.el to + doc/lispref/elisp.texi, etc/AUTHORS, lisp/version.el, nt/emacs.rc, + and lisp/cus-edit.el (if modified). Copy lisp/loaddefs.el to lisp/ldefs-boot.el and commit lisp/ldefs-boot.el. For a release, also commit the ChangeLog files in all directories. 7. make-dist --snapshot. Check the contents of the new tar with - admin/diff-tar-files against an older tar file. Some old pretest + admin/diff-tar-files against an older tar file. Some old pretest tarballs are kept under fencepost.gnu.org:~pot/emacs-pretest/, while old emacs tarballs are at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/>. |