[binutils-gdb] Update after creating 2.43 branch

[Nick Clifton]

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=9f26b04c3e95c84f3f44555b9db61c25a3741360

commit 9f26b04c3e95c84f3f44555b9db61c25a3741360
Author: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date:   Sat Jul 20 13:46:23 2024 +0100

    Update after creating 2.43 branch

Diff:
---
 binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release | 30 ++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release b/binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release
index 3c852c59413..9e71abd3294 100644
--- a/binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release
+++ b/binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release
@@ -134,27 +134,21 @@ Approx time to complete from here: 2 hours ...
 	
 	Add a .dirstamp file to the gas/doc subdirectory:
 
-          touch -d <today's date> binutils-2.<release>/gas/doc/.dirstamp
-          tar rvf binutils-<release>.tar binutils-<release>/gas/doc/.ditstamp
-          rm binutils-<release>.tar.xz
-          xz -9 binutils-<release>.tar
-
-          eg:
-	    touch -d 2024-08-01 binutils-2.42.90/gas/doc/.dirstamp
-	    tar rvf binutils-2.41.90.tar binutils-2.42.90/gas/doc/.dirstamp
-            rm binutils-2.42.90.tar.xz
-            xz -9 binutils-2.42.90.tar
-	    
+          touch -d `date +%Y-%m-%d` binutils-2.43.90/gas/doc/.dirstamp
+          tar rvf binutils-2.43.90.tar binutils-2.43.90/gas/doc/.dirstamp
+          rm binutils-2.43.90.tar.xz
+          xz -9 -k binutils-2.43.90.tar
+
 	 ...END OF FIXME   
 
      c. Build a test target using this tarball.
 
-           cp binutils-2.42.90.tar.xz /dev/shm
+           cp binutils-*.tar.xz /dev/shm
 	   pushd /dev/shm
-	   tar xvf binutils-2.42.90.tar.xz
+	   tar xvf binutils-*.tar.xz
 	   mkdir build
 	   cd build
-	   ../binutils-2.42.90/configure --quiet --enable-gold
+	   ../binutils-*/configure --quiet --enable-gold
 	   make
 	   popd
 
@@ -162,11 +156,11 @@ Approx time to complete from here: 2 hours ...
 
      d. Upload the pre-release snapshot to the sourceware FTP site:
 
-          scp binutils-2.42.90.tar.xz sourceware.org:/var/ftp/pub/binutils/snapshots
-          ssh sourceware.org sha256sum ~ftp/pub/binutils/snapshots/binutils-2.42.90.tar.xz
+          scp binutils-2.43.90.tar.xz sourceware.org:/var/ftp/pub/binutils/snapshots
+          ssh sourceware.org sha256sum ~ftp/pub/binutils/snapshots/binutils-2.43.90.tar.xz
 
         Paranoia: Compare the checksum with the local version.
-	
+
      e. Clean up the source directory again.
 
          git clean -fdx
@@ -193,7 +187,7 @@ Dear Translation Project
       binutils mailing list.  Set a date for when the release will
       actually happen.  Something like:
       
-
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Hi Everyone, 
 
   The <NEW_VERSION> branch has now been created: