[binutils-gdb] Remove steps for adding .dirstamp when creating pre-release tarball

Nick Clifton nickc@sourceware.org
Tue Jul 22 14:41:23 GMT 2025


https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ca8c70d033ddf0cf5c2249eb51a7c26ead685247

commit ca8c70d033ddf0cf5c2249eb51a7c26ead685247
Author: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Jul 22 15:40:00 2025 +0100

    Remove steps for adding .dirstamp when creating pre-release tarball

Diff:
---
 binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release b/binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release
index 6e19a8bffa8..0604a5646eb 100644
--- a/binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release
+++ b/binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release
@@ -136,17 +136,6 @@ Approx time to complete from here: 2 hours ...
 	 
             ./src-release.sh -x binutils
 
-        FIXME: Not sure if the following steps are needed...
-	
-	Add a .dirstamp file to the gas/doc subdirectory:
-
-          touch -d `date +%Y-%m-%d` binutils-2.45.90/gas/doc/.dirstamp
-          tar rvf binutils-2.45.90.tar binutils-2.45.90/gas/doc/.dirstamp
-          rm binutils-2.45.90.tar.xz
-          xz -9 -k binutils-2.45.90.tar
-
-	 ...END OF FIXME
-
      c. Build a test target using this tarball.
 
            cp binutils-*.tar.xz /dev/shm


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