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authorDaniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>2018-09-05 10:18:06 +0000
committerDaniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>2018-09-05 10:18:32 +0000
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treeb8319294f7df67373c510cff10ca94afa0c49270
parent380da6011862248ee283552a3d37c31e3d816365 (diff)
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unposted (cf 43373): Add two caveats: no local modifications, and need to build in-tree.
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-rw-r--r--Etc/creating-a-release.txt7
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2018-09-05  Daniel Shahaf  <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
+
+	* unposted (cf 43373): Etc/creating-a-release.txt: Add two
+	caveats: no local modifications, and need to build in-tree.
+
 2018-09-03  Daniel Shahaf  <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
 
 	* 43370: Etc/creating-a-release.txt: New maintainer-facing
diff --git a/Etc/creating-a-release.txt b/Etc/creating-a-release.txt
index 5d4e1e8b2..80b0dd338 100644
--- a/Etc/creating-a-release.txt
+++ b/Etc/creating-a-release.txt
@@ -33,12 +33,19 @@ To create a zsh release:
 - Create tarball:
 
 	git checkout zsh-5.5.1-test-1
+	git diff HEAD # ensure no local mods
+	Util/preconfig && ./configure ...
+	make
 	make -C Etc
 	make -C Doc everything
 	make tarxz-doc tarxz-src
 	for i in zsh*.tar.?z ; do gpg -ab -- $i ; done
 
 	# The tarxz-* targets create both *.tar.gz and *.tar.xz.
+	# 
+	# They must be run in an in-tree build (where the generated 'configure'
+	# and the generated 'Makefile' are in the same directory), for now, since
+	# Doc/help/* need to be included in the src tarball.  See workers/43373.
 
 - [one time step] Add your key to http://zsh.sf.net/Arc/source.html; see README in the 'web' repository for how to do this.  Its URL is: