Top level release system changes

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

That'd be Ian - or someone else in group "cygnus".  The scripts are in
~ian/bin/ on sources.

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:35:44PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> The file 'src-release' has been added to the top level of src.  This
> contains the rules from 'Makefile.in' related to the issuing of releases
> of various packages.  It was considered highly desirable to get these
> into a separate file.  At the moment no serious rewriting of these rules
> has been done, just the separation.
> 
> GDB has already started using this new file for its snapshot releases.
> I believe binutils also has an automated snapshot script.  If this script
> contains lines like 'make -f Makefile.in binutils.tar.bz2', it would be
> wonderful if they could be changed to 'make -f src-release
> binutils.tar.bz2' (or, if you want to be extra conservative, to try
> both).  Once all packages have been changed in this manner, I
> can remove the code from Makefile.in (at the moment it is in both places)
> and continue my top level autoconfiscation work.
> 
> I'd appreciate a notice that this has been done, or that there is some
> remaining problem which needs to be fixed before it can be done.
> 
> --Nathanael Nerode
> neroden@gcc.gnu.org
> 
> 

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer