HOWTO-RELEASE: document the necessary dependencies for producing dist tarballs

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Eli Schwartz
2024-09-03 12:42:27 -04:00
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@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ Notes on releasing.
It is recommended to install m4 before autoconf, since the later
requires the former.
Additionally make sure that you have current releases of autoconf-archive
and pkg-config (for additional macros used when generating the configure
script). These packages may be downloaded from the following locations:
autoconf-archive - https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/autoconf-archive/
pkg-config - https://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/
Release builds should only be done on a system with a functioning
and correctly set system clock and on a filesystem which accurately
records file update times. Use of GNU make is recommended.
@@ -100,7 +107,7 @@ Notes on releasing.
make release
This will update "RELEASE-DATE", "VERSION" in the source tree,
This will update "RELEASE-DATE", "VERSION" in the source tree,
and libtiff/tiffvers.h in the build tree.
12. In the source tree, verify that the version info in RELEASE-DATE,