From 54aa48feb74a8dd6a6734fd25c3cf808da1a1de9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:40:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about bumping the value of customize-changed-options-previous-release. --- admin/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ admin/make-tarball.txt | 15 ++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/admin/ChangeLog b/admin/ChangeLog index 88aac773bc9..97d2757afcd 100644 --- a/admin/ChangeLog +++ b/admin/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2009-07-11 Eli Zaretskii + + * make-tarball.txt: Add a note about bumping the value of + customize-changed-options-previous-release. + 2009-06-24 Kenichi Handa * charsets/mapconv: For the UNICODE format files, do reverse sort diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt index 4d809045c63..0a2eb55e10c 100644 --- a/admin/make-tarball.txt +++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt @@ -22,21 +22,26 @@ For each step, check for possible errors. 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 . -- 2.11.4.GIT