Merge from emacs-24; up to 2014-04-22T20:19:17Z!eggert@cs.ucla.edu

[bpt/emacs.git] / admin / make-tarball.txt

diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt
index 005c669..50183f7 100644 (file)
--- a/admin/make-tarball.txt
+++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt
@@ -28,14 +28,10 @@ General steps (for each step, check for possible errors):
       M-: (require 'authors) RET
       M-x authors RET
 
-    There is almost guaranteed to be an "*Authors Errors*" buffer with
-    problems caused by certain bad ChangeLog entries.  You can ignore
-    the very old ones (eg lisp/erc has a lot).  If there are errors
-    related to new entries (especially entries that are new since the
-    last pretest), see if you can fix them.  If there was a ChangeLog
-    typo, fix it.  If a file was deleted or renamed, consider adding
-    an appropriate entry to authors-ignored-files, authors-valid-file-names,
-    or authors-renamed-files-alist.
+    If there is an "*Authors Errors*" buffer, address the issues.
+    If there was a ChangeLog typo, fix it.  If a file was deleted or
+    renamed, consider adding an appropriate entry to authors-ignored-files,
+    authors-valid-file-names, or authors-renamed-files-alist.
 
     If necessary, repeat M-x authors after making those changes.
     Save the "*Authors*" buffer as etc/AUTHORS.
@@ -61,6 +57,9 @@ General steps (for each step, check for possible errors):
 5.   autoreconf -i -I m4 --force
      make bootstrap
 
+     make -C etc/refcards
+     make -C etc/refcards clean
+
 6.  Copy lisp/loaddefs.el to lisp/ldefs-boot.el.
 
     Commit etc/AUTHORS, lisp/ldefs-boot.el, and the files changed
@@ -144,6 +143,8 @@ General steps (for each step, check for possible errors):
     Download them and check the signatures.  Check they build.
 
 12. For a pretest, announce it on emacs-devel and info-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
+    Probably should also include the platform-testers list:
+    https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-testers
     For a release, also announce it on info-gnu@gnu.org.  (Probably
     bcc the info- addresses to make it less likely that people will
     followup on those lists.)