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Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs.
-- originally written by Eli Zaretskii, amended by Francesco Potort́

For each step, check for possible errors.

1.  cvs -q update -Pd

2.  Bootstrap to make 100% sure all elc files are up-to-date, and to
    make sure that the later tagged version will bootstrap, should it be
    necessary to check it out.

3.  Set the version number (M-x load-file RET admin/admin.el RET, then
    M-x set-version RET).  For a release, add released change log
    entries (M-x add-release-logs RET).

4.  rm configure; make bootstrap

5.  Commit configure, loaddefs.el, cus-load.el, finder-inf.el, README,
    emacs.texi.

6.  make-dist --snapshot.  Check the contents of the new tar with
    admin/diff-tar-files against an older tar file.  Some old pretest
    tarballs are kept under fencepost.gnu.org:~pot/emacs-pretest/.

7.  Make xdeltas:
    xdelta delta emacs-OLD.tar.gz emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta

8.  tar -zxf emacs-NEW.tar.gz; cd NEW
    Then, either using `script' or M-x compile, do
     configure && make && make -n install
    Save the compilation log in compile-NEW.log and compare it against
    an old one.  The easiest way to do that is to visit the old log in
    Emacs, change the version number of the old Emacs to __, do the same
    with the new log and do M-x ediff. Especially check that Info files
    aren't built.

9.  `cvs tag TAG' in the toplevel Emacs dir.  TAG is
    EMACS_PRETEST_XX_YY_ZZZ for a pretest, don't know for a release.

10. For pretests, make an announcement by selecting new data from the
    change logs and save it into emacs-NEW.announce, don't know for a
    release.  To get the new data from change logs, you can use:
    cvs -q diff -b -r EMACS_PRETEST_XX_YY_ZZZ $(find -name ChangeLog|sort) |
    sed -n -e 's/^=\+//p' -e 's/^> //p' -e 's/^diff.*//p' \
	   -e 's/^RCS file: .cvsroot.emacs.emacs.\(.*\),v/\1/p'

11. rsync emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta compile-NEW.log \
    emacs-new.announce alpha.gnu.org:/home/alpha/gnu/emacs/pretest/

12. Verify that after five minutes at most the files appear on
    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/.

13. Let Richard Stallman know about the new pretest and tell him to
    announce it using the announcement you prepared.