GNU Autoconf Archive Maintainer README --mode:org;fill-column:79;--

How to build the archive from Git.

Ensure that the following packages are installed in your system:

Autoconf, Automake, Gnulib, and GNU Make.
Git (1.6.x.x or later)
Python (2.6 or later)
Python 2.6 is needed for textwrap.TextWrapper break_on_hyphens option only. This is being worked on decrease python version requirements.
texinfo (5.0 or later)

Now run the following commands:

git clone ssh://[<login>@]git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/autoconf-archive
cd autoconf-archive
./bootstrap.sh              # set up autotools and gnulib environment
./configure                 # determine system properties
make maintainer-all         # create/update all generated files that will be in a release
make                        # update texinfo documentation

If “bootstrap.sh” fails because it can’t find “gnulib-tool”, then you should clone the “gnulib” project into the top-level directory of the autoconf-archive repository by running:

git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git

How to update the web site.

Check out the web site from CVS:

cvs -z3 -d:ext:[<login>@]cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/web/autoconf-archive co -d html autoconf-archive

Run the following commands:

make web-manual             # generate an HTML rendering of the user documentation
./fix-website.sh            # massage file names generated by texinfo
                            # copy the new files into the CVS checkout
rsync -vrcH --exclude CVS --delete-after doc/manual/html/ html/
(cd html ; cvs commit -m "generated from autoconf-archive $(git describe)")

How to make a release.

Determine the appropriate version number, i.e. today’s date in ISO formatting.
Update the date stamps in the README file.
Update the NEWS file. The script that generates release tarballs checks that the current version number in mentioned in that file. If NEWS isn’t up-to-date, the script will fail.
Ensure that there are no uncommitted changes in ‘maint’ or ‘master’. Then create a signed tag using the naming scheme ‘v<yyyy>.<mm>.<dd>’. For example:
```
git tag v2009.07.31 -s -m 'Autoconf Archive Version 2009.07.31'
    
```
Run “make stable”. Other possible release types are “beta” and “major”.
Use the command line call printed out by gnulib to upload the tarballs to the GNU ftp server.