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authorTanya Lattner <tonic@nondot.org>2006-08-10 00:23:05 +0000
committerTanya Lattner <tonic@nondot.org>2006-08-10 00:23:05 +0000
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Adding notes from release experience.
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@@ -56,11 +56,13 @@ There are three main tasks for building a release of LLVM:
<li><a href="#deps">Make LibDeps.txt</a></li>
<li><a href="#settle">Settle LLVM HEAD</a></li>
<li><a href="#tag">Tag LLVM and Create the Release Branch</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#verchanges">Update LLVM Version </a></li>
<li><a href="#build">Build LLVM</a></li>
<li><a href="#check">Run 'make check'</a></li>
<li><a href="#test">Run LLVM Test Suite</a></li>
<li><a href="#dist">Build the LLVM Source Distributions</a></li>
<li><a href="#llvmgccbin">Build the LLVM GCC Binary Distribution</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#webupdates">Update the LLVM Website</a></li>
</ol>
</div>
@@ -138,12 +140,20 @@ fix <em>for the release</em>.
"ROOT_RELEASE_XX" where XX is the major and minor
release numbers (you can't have . in a cvs tag name). So, for Release 1.2,
XX=12 and for Release 1.10, XX=110.
+
+ <p>
+ <tt>cvs tag ROOT_RELEASE_XX</tt><br>
+ </p>
</li>
<li>
Immediately create cvs branches based on the ROOT_RELEASE_XX tag. The tag
should be "release_XX" (where XX matches that used for the ROOT_RELEASE_XX
tag). This is where the release distribution will be created.
+
+ <p>
+ cvs tag -b -r ROOT_RELEASE_XX release_XX
+ </p>
</li>
<li>
@@ -165,6 +175,17 @@ fix <em>for the release</em>.
</div>
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
+<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="verchanges">Update LLVM Version</a></div>
+<div class="doc_text">
+ <p>
+ After creating the llvm release branch, update the release branch's autoconf/configure.ac
+ version from X.Xcvs to just X.X. Update it on mainline as well to be the next version
+ (X.X+1cvs).
+ </p>
+
+</div>
+
+<!-- ======================================================================= -->
<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="build">Build LLVM</a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
<p>
@@ -274,6 +295,21 @@ fix <em>for the release</em>.
</ol>
</div>
+
+<!-- ======================================================================= -->
+<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="webupdates">Update the LLVM Website</a></div>
+<div class="doc_text">
+ <p>
+ Check out the llvm-www module from cvs. Create a new subdirectory X.X in the
+ releases directory. Place the llvm, llvm-test, llvm-gcc source, and llvm-gcc
+ binaries in this new directory. Copy the llvm/docs and LICENSE.txt files
+ into this new directory. Update the releases/download.html file with the new release.
+ Update the releases/index.html with the new release. Finally, update the main page (
+ index.html and sidebar) to point to the new release and release announcement. Make
+ sure this all gets commited back into cvs.
+ </p>
+</div>
+
<!--
<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="release">Release</a></div>
<div class="doc_text">