Re: [PATCH] README-release improvements

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Jim,

On 22 Oct 2011, at 17:15, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>> 
>> If you want to clean the cruft out of your working directories before
>> starting the release process, you should do it before you change branches
>> and merge changes from upstream, using the Makefile that you already have
>> that is already in sync with the rest of your tree:
>> 
>>  make maintainer-clean
>>  git checkout master
>>  git pull origin master
>>  ./bootstrap
>>  ./configure
> 
> Yes, running "make maintainer-clean" is a requirement.
> A patch with that improvement would be welcome.

Okay to push?

--
readme-release: several release instructions improvements.

* README-release: Don't git pull all branches when only master
is needed for the release process.
Don't try to run ./configure right after git pull incase files
that influence the bootstrap process have changed, move the
./configure step to after running ./bootstrap.
Don't bootstrap "one last time"... it's the first time!
---
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 25790a6..8b0f6a5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2011-10-22  Gary V. Vaughan  <address@hidden>
+
+       readme-release: Don't git pull all branches when only master
+       is needed for the release process.
+       Run make maintainer-clean before changing trees and merging.
+       Don't try to run ./configure right after git pull incase files
+       that influence the bootstrap process have changed, move the
+       ./configure step to after running ./bootstrap.
+       Don't bootstrap "one last time"... it's the first time!
+
2011-10-19  Gary V. Vaughan  <address@hidden>

        maint.mk: Respect $(build_aux) in web-manual rule.
diff --git a/top/README-release b/top/README-release
index 0e1694d..f43b7ad 100755
--- a/top/README-release
+++ b/top/README-release
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@

* start from a clean, up-to-date git directory.

-    git checkout master; git pull
-
-* Run ./configure && make maintainer-clean
+    make maintainer-clean
+    git checkout master
+    git pull origin master

* Ensure that the desired versions of autoconf, automake, etc.
  are in your PATH.  See the buildreq list in bootstrap.conf for
@@ -18,12 +18,10 @@

      http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/@address@hidden

-* Run bootstrap one last time.  This downloads any new translations:
-
-    ./bootstrap
+* Run "./bootstrap && ./configure".  This downloads any new translations.

* Pre-release testing:
-  Ensure that make check syntax-check succeeds.
+  Ensure that "make check syntax-check" succeeds.

* Run "make distcheck"

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)