Mercurial > emacs
changeset 103857:51b13818eef5
Add a note about bumping the value of
customize-changed-options-previous-release.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:40:04 +0000 |
| parents | 904e3214f9b7 |
| children | e94bd524533d |
| files | admin/make-tarball.txt |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/admin/make-tarball.txt Sat Jul 11 06:38:11 2009 +0000 +++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt Sat Jul 11 10:40:04 2009 +0000 @@ -22,21 +22,26 @@ 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/>.