| 1 | HOWTO-RELEASE:
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| 2 |
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| 3 | Notes on releasing.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | 0. Make sure that you have current FSF releases of autoconf, automake,
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| 6 | and libtool packages installed under a common installation prefix
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| 7 | and that these tools are in your executable search path prior to
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| 8 | any other installed versions. Versions delivered with Linux may be
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| 9 | altered so it is best to install official FSF releases. GNU 'm4'
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| 10 | 1.4.6 or later is needed in order to avoid bugs in m4. These
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| 11 | packages may be downloaded from the following ftp locations:
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| 12 |
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| 13 | autoconf - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/autoconf
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| 14 | automake - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake
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| 15 | libtool - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtool
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| 16 |
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| 17 | Release builds should only be done on a system with a functioning
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| 18 | and correctly set system clock and on a filesystem which accurately
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| 19 | records file update times. Use of GNU make is recommended.
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| 20 |
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| 21 | 1. Commit any unsaved changes.
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| 22 |
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| 23 | 2. Create html/vX.X.html. Take ChangeLog entries and html-ify in there.
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| 24 | Easist thing to do is take html/vX.(X-1).html and use it as a template.
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| 25 | Add that file to the list of EXTRA_DIST files in the html/Makefile.am.
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| 26 |
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| 27 | 3. Update html/index.html to refer to this new page as the current release.
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| 28 |
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| 29 | 4. Increment the release version in configure.ac. Put 'alpha' or
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| 30 | 'beta' after the version, if applicable. For example:
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| 31 |
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| 32 | 3.9.1
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| 33 | or
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| 34 | 3.9.1beta
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| 35 |
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| 36 | Version should be updated in two places: in the second argument of the
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| 37 | AC_INIT macro and in LIBTIFF_xxx_VERSION variables.
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| 38 |
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| 39 | 5. Add an entry to Changelog similar to:
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| 40 |
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| 41 | * libtiff 3.9.1 released.
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| 42 |
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| 43 | 6. In the source tree do
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| 44 |
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| 45 | ./autogen.sh
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| 46 |
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| 47 | This step may be skipped if you have already been using a
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| 48 | maintainer build with current autoconf, automake, and libtool
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| 49 | packages. It is only needed when updating tool versions.
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| 50 |
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| 51 | 7. It is recommended (but not required) to build outside of the source
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| 52 | tree so that the source tree is kept in a pristine state. This
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| 53 | also allows sharing the source directory on several networked
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| 54 | systems. For example:
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| 55 |
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| 56 | mkdir libtiff-build
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| 57 | cd libtiff-build
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| 58 | /path/to/libtiff/configure --enable-maintainer-mode
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| 59 |
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| 60 | otherwise do
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| 61 |
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| 62 | ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode
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| 63 |
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| 64 | 8. In the build tree do
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| 65 |
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| 66 | make release
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| 67 |
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| 68 | This will update "RELEASE-DATE", "VERSION", and libtiff/tiffvers.h
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| 69 | in the source tree.
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| 70 |
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| 71 | 9. In the source tree, verify that the version info in RELEASE-DATE,
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| 72 | VERSION and libtiff/tiffvers.h is right.
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| 73 |
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| 74 | 10. In the build tree do
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| 75 |
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| 76 | make
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| 77 | make distcheck
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| 78 |
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| 79 | If 'make distcheck' fails, then correct any issues until it
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| 80 | succeeds.
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| 81 |
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| 82 | Two files with names tiff-version.tar.gz and tiff-version.zip will
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| 83 | be created in the top level build directory.
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| 84 |
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| 85 | 11. In the source tree do
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| 86 |
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| 87 | 'cvs commit'.
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| 88 |
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| 89 | 12. In the source tree do
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| 90 |
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| 91 | cvs tag Release-v3-9-1
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| 92 |
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| 93 | (or the appropriate name for the release)
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| 94 |
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| 95 | 13. Copy release packages from the build tree to the
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| 96 | ftp.remotesensing.org ftp site.
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| 97 |
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| 98 | scp tiff-*.tar.gz tiff-*.zip \
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| 99 | frankw@upload.osgeo.org:/osgeo/download/libtiff
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| 100 |
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| 101 | 14. Announce to list, tiff@lists.maptools.org
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| 102 |
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| 103 | 15. Update libtiff page on freshmeat with new version announcement.
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| 104 |
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