Extend release preparation instructions to include notification and
[platform/upstream/fontconfig.git] / INSTALL
1 Fontconfig is built with the traditional configure script:
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3         $ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
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5 This should generate valid Makefiles, then:
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7         $ make
8         $ make install
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10 If you're going to package fontconfig for release, there are several
11 important steps:
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13  1.     Update the version numbers
14                 configure.in
15                 fontconfig/fontconfig.h
16  2.     Fix the README
17                 Change version number
18                 Set the date
19  3.     Commit those changes
20  4.     make checkdist
21  5.     tag the tree
22                 cvs tag fc-2_2_xx
23  6.     Split out the ChangeLog into ChangeLog-2.2.xx with
24         the changes since the previous release
25  7.     Copy ChangeLog-2.2.xx and fontconfig-2.2.xx.tar.gz to
26         freedesktop.org:~fontconfig/public_html/release
27  8.     Update the Fontconfig Devel wiki page
28         http://freedesktop.org/Software/FontconfigDevel
29  9.     Post a note to fontconfig@fontconfig.org