Re: [PATCH 1/2] bfd/development.sh: Add experimental

["H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 3:16 AM, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi H.J.
>
>> Add experimental to indicate whether this is a release branch.
>>
>>       PR ld/23536
>>       * development.sh (experimental): New.
>
> Approved.
>
> Would you mind adding a note to the binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release
> file, noting when the experimental field should be set to false.  (Presumably
> when the branch is first created).
>

How about this patch?

Thanks.


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H.J.

From a4c37e11970c9d7c771d63e0fe4ceaeda162e35b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:25:05 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Document setting experimental on release branch.

	* README-how-to-make-a-release: Document setting "experimental"
	to false.
---
 binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release b/binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release
index c58515a96a..7ad9ebfde7 100644
--- a/binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release
+++ b/binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ When the time comes to actually make the release....
   21. Update the release number in bfd/version.m4 on the release
       branch to a whole new minor version number, without a point
       value.  Eg "2.29.90" becomes "2.30".  Change bfd/development.sh
-      to set the value to "false".  Regenerate the configure and
+      to set all values to "false".  Regenerate the configure and
       makefiles.  And *info* files.  Add ChangeLog entries for the
       updates and add a  "this-is-the-2.XX-release" comment and
       commit.  Make sure to include the .gmo files.
@@ -313,7 +313,8 @@ looks like this:
   3. In the branch sources:
 
        a. Update the minor release number in bfd/version.m4.
-       b. Edit bfd/development.sh and set "development=false".
+       b. Edit bfd/development.sh, set "development=false" and
+       "experimental=false".
        c. Regenerate the configure files.
        c.1. Remove spurious autom4te.cache files:
 
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