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@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 -*- outline -*-
 
 This file attempts to describe the rules to use when hacking Bison.
-Don't put this file into the distribution.  Don't mention it in the
-ChangeLog.
+Don't put this file into the distribution.
 
 Everything related to the development of Bison is on Savannah:
 
-	http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/bison/
+        http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/bison/
 
 
 * Administrivia
@@ -26,6 +25,15 @@ The correct response to most actual bugs is to write a new test case
 which demonstrates the bug.  Then fix the bug, re-run the test suite,
 and check everything in.
 
+** You may find it useful to install the git-merge-changelog merge driver:
+
+  http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/git-merge-changelog.c
+
+When following the generic installation instructions there, keep in mind that
+your clone of Bison's git repository already contains appropriate
+.gitattributes files, and running Bison's bootstrap script will make the
+necessary changes to .git/config.
+
 
 * Hacking
 
@@ -39,6 +47,118 @@ of the .output file etc.  This excludes impossible error messages
 meant for the maintainers only.
 
 
+* Working from the repository
+
+These notes intend to help people working on the checked-out sources.
+These requirements do not apply when building from a distribution tarball.
+
+** Requirements
+
+We've opted to keep only the highest-level sources in the repository.
+This eases our maintenance burden, (fewer merges etc.), but imposes more
+requirements on anyone wishing to build from the just-checked-out sources.
+For example, you have to use the latest stable versions of the maintainer
+tools we depend upon, including:
+
+- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
+- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
+- Flex <http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/>
+- Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
+- Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
+- Perl <http://www.cpan.org/>
+- Rsync <http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/>
+- Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
+
+Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
+Valgrind supports your architecture.
+
+Bison is written using Bison grammars, so there are bootstrapping
+issues.  The bootstrap script attempts to discover when the C code
+generated from the grammars is out of date, and to bootstrap with an
+out-of-date version of the C code, but the process is not foolproof.
+Also, you may run into similar problems yourself if you modify Bison.
+
+Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful.
+Later, after synchronizing from the repository a plain `make' should
+be sufficient.
+
+** First checkout
+
+Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out
+this package from the repository.  For the record, you will find all the
+relevant information on:
+
+        http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=bison
+
+Bison uses Git submodules: subscriptions to other Git repositories.
+In particular it uses gnulib, the GNU portability library.  To ask Git
+to perform the first checkout of the submodules, run
+
+       $ git submodule update --init
+
+Git submodule support is weak before versions 1.6 and later, you
+should probably upgrade Git if your version is older.
+
+The next step is to get other files needed to build, which are
+extracted from other source packages:
+
+        $ ./bootstrap
+
+And there you are!  Just
+
+        $ ./configure
+        $ make
+        $ make check
+
+At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,
+and the master copy:
+
+        $ git diff
+
+should output no difference.
+
+Enjoy!
+
+** Updating
+
+The use of submodules make things somewhat different because git does
+not support recursive operations: submodules must be taken care of
+explicitly by the user.
+
+*** Updating Bison
+
+If you pull a newer version of a branch, say via `git pull', you might
+import requests for updated submodules.  A simple `git diff' will
+reveal if the current version of the submodule (i.e., the actual
+contents of the gnulib directory) and the current request from the
+subscriber (i.e., the reference of the version of gnulib that the
+Bison reporitory requests) differ.  To upgrade the submodules (i.e.,
+to check out the version that is actually requested by the subscriber,
+run `git submodule update'.
+
+        $ git pull
+        $ git submodule update
+
+*** Updating a submodule
+To update a submodule, say gnulib, do as follows:
+
+Get the most recent version of the master branch from git.
+
+        $ cd gnulib
+        $ git fetch
+        $ git checkout -b master --track origin/master
+
+Make sure Bison can live with that version of gnulib.
+
+        $ cd ..
+        $ ./bootstrap
+        $ make distcheck
+
+Register your changes.
+
+        $ git checkin ...
+
+
 * Test suite
 
 ** make check
@@ -52,32 +172,64 @@ release:
   that 1. Bison compiles cleanly, 2. the parsers it produces compile
   cleanly too.
 
+- Build with -DGNULIB_POSIXCHECK.  It suggests gnulib modules that can
+  fix portability issues.
+
 - run `make maintainer-check' which:
   - runs `valgrind -q bison' to run Bison under Valgrind.
   - runs the parsers under Valgrind.
   - runs the test suite with G++ as C compiler...
 
+- run `make maintainer-push-check', which runs `make maintainer-check'
+  while activating the push implementation and its pull interface wrappers
+  in many test cases that were originally written to exercise only the
+  pull implementation.  This makes certain the push implementation can
+  perform every task the pull implementation can.
+
+- run `make maintainer-xml-check', which runs `make maintainer-check'
+  while checking Bison's XML automaton report for every working grammar
+  passed to Bison in the test suite.  The check just diffs the output of
+  Bison's included XSLT style sheets with the output of --report=all and
+  --graph.
+
 - Change tests/atlocal/CFLAGS to add your preferred options.  For
   instance, `-traditional' to check that the parsers are K&R.  Note
   that it does not make sense for glr.c, which should be ANSI,
-  but currently is actually GNU C, nor for lalr1.cc, which anyway is
-  not exercised yet in the test suite.
+  but currently is actually GNU C, nor for lalr1.cc.
+
+- Test with a very recent version of GCC for both C and C++.  Testing
+  with older versions that are still in use is nice too.
 
 
 * Release Procedure
 
+** Try to get the *.pot files to the Translation Project at least one
+week before a stable release, to give them time to translate them.
+Before generating the *.pot files, make sure that po/POTFILES.in and
+runtime-po/POTFILES.in list all files with translatable strings.
+This helps: grep -l '\<_(' *
+
 ** Tests
 See above.
 
 ** Update the foreign files
-Running `make update' in the top level should make it all for you.
-This covers PO files too.  Beware that it happens that some PO files
-contain serious problems and are rejected by recent Gettext releases:
-fix them all, and complain to the Translation Project!
-
-Note that there might be *new* PO files.  Don't forget to update the
-whole machinery, which not only includes LINGUAS, but `cvs add'ing the
-PO files too.
+Running `./bootstrap' in the top level should update them all for you.
+This covers PO files too.  Sometimes a PO file contains problems that
+causes it to be rejected by recent Gettext releases; please report
+these to the Translation Project.
+
+** Update README
+Make sure the information in README is current.  Most notably, make sure
+it recommends a version of GNU M4 that is compatible with the latest
+Bison sources.
+
+** Check copyright years.
+We update years in copyright statements throughout Bison once at the
+start of every year by running `make update-copyright'.  However, before
+a release, it's good to verify that it's actually been run.  Besides the
+copyright statement for each Bison file, check the copyright statements
+that the skeletons insert into generated parsers, and check all
+occurrences of PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR in configure.ac.
 
 ** Update NEWS
 The version number, *and* the date of the release (including for
@@ -85,9 +237,25 @@ betas).
 
 ** Update ChangeLog
 Should have an entry similar to `Version 1.49b.'.
-Check all this in once `make distcheck' passes.
+
+** Tag the release
+Before Bison will build with the right version number, you must tag the release
+in git.  Do this after all other changes.  The command is similar to:
+
+  git tag -a v2.3b
+
+The log message can be simply:
+
+  Bison 2.3b
+
+** Push
+Once `make distcheck' passes, push your changes and the tag.
+`git push' without arguments will not push the tag.
 
 ** make alpha
+FIXME: `make alpha' is not maintained and is broken.  These
+instructions need to be replaced or removed.
+
 Running `make alpha' is absolutely perfect for beta releases: it makes
 the tarballs, the xdeltas, and prepares (in /tmp/) a proto
 announcement.  It is so neat, that that's what I use anyway for
@@ -99,39 +267,121 @@ If it fails, you're on your own...
 It requires GNU Make.
 
 ** Upload
-Put the tarballs/xdeltas where they should be.  Or put it somewhere,
-and send the URL to ftp-upload@gnu.org.
+The generic GNU upload procedure is at:
 
-** Bump the version number
-In configure.ac.  Run `make', check this in.
+  http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Automated-FTP-Uploads
+
+Follow the instructions there to register your information so you're permitted
+to upload.  Make sure your public key has been uploaded at least to
+keys.gnupg.net.  You can upload it with:
+
+  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --send-keys F125BDF3
+
+where F125BDF3 should be replaced with your key ID.
+
+Here's a brief reminder of how to roll the tarballs and upload them:
+
+*** make distcheck
+*** gpg -b bison-2.3b.tar.gz
+*** In a file named `bison-2.3b.tar.gz.directive', type:
+
+      version: 1.1
+      directory: bison
+      filename: bison-2.3b.tar.gz
+
+*** gpg --clearsign bison-2.3b.tar.gz.directive
+*** ftp ftp-upload.gnu.org # Log in as anonymous.
+*** cd /incoming/alpha # cd /incoming/ftp for full release.
+*** put bison-2.3b.tar.gz # This can take a while.
+*** put bison-2.3b.tar.gz.sig
+*** put bison-2.3b.tar.gz.directive.asc
+*** Repeat all these steps for bison-2.3b.tar.bz2.
+
+** Update Bison manual on www.gnu.org.
+
+*** You need a non-anonymous checkout of the web pages directory.
+
+  $ cvs -d YOUR_USERID@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/web/bison checkout bison
+
+*** Get familiar with the instructions for web page maintainers.
+http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/readme_index.html
+http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/README.software.html
+especially the note about symlinks.
+
+*** Build the web pages.
+Assuming BISON_CHECKOUT refers to a checkout of the Bison dir, and
+BISON_WWW_CHECKOUT refers to the web directory created above, do:
+
+  $ cd $BISON_CHECKOUT/doc
+  $ make stamp-vti
+  $ ../build-aux/gendocs.sh -o "$BISON_WWW_CHECKOUT/manual" \
+    bison "Bison - GNU parser generator"
+  $ cd $BISON_WWW_CHECKOUT
+
+Verify that the result looks sane.
+
+*** Commit the modified and the new files.
+
+*** Remove old files.
+Find the files which have not been overwritten (because they belonged to
+sections that have been removed or renamed):
+
+   $ cd manual/html_node
+   $ ls -lt
+
+Remove these files and commit their removal to CVS.  For each of these
+files, add a line to the file .symlinks.  This will ensure that
+hyperlinks to the removed files will redirect to the entire manual; this
+is better than a 404 error.
+
+There is a problem with 'index.html' being written twice (once for POSIX
+function 'index', once for the table of contents); you can ignore this
+issue.
 
 ** Announce
+To generate a template announcement file:
+
+  make RELEASE_TYPE=alpha gpg_key_ID=F125BDF3 announcement
+
+where alpha can be replaced by beta or stable and F125BDF3 should be
+replaced with your key ID.  For an example of how to fill out the
+template, search the mailing list archives for the most recent release
+announcement.
+
 Complete/fix the announcement file, and send it at least to
-info@gnu.org (if a real release, or a ``serious beta''),
-bison@gnu.org, and translation@iro.umontreal.ca.
+info-gnu@gnu.org (if a real release, or a ``serious beta''),
+bug-bison@gnu.org, help-bison@gnu.org, bison-patches@gnu.org,
+and coordinator@translationproject.org.
+
+Send the same announcement on the comp.compilers newsgroup by sending
+email to compilers@iecc.com.  Do not make any Cc as the moderator will
+throw away anything cross-posted or Cc'ed.  It really needs to be a
+separate message.
+
+** Bump the version number
+In configure.ac.  Run `make'.  So that developers don't accidentally add new
+items to the old NEWS entry, create a new empty NEWS entry something like:
+
+  Changes in version ?.? (????-??-??):
 
-Send the same announcement on the comp.compilers newsgroup.  Do not
-make any Cc as the moderator will throw away anything cross-posted or
-Cc'ed.  It really needs to be a separate message.
+Push these changes.
 
 
 -----
 
-Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2002-2005, 2007-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU Bison.
 
-GNU Bison is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-any later version.
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
 
-GNU Bison is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with GNU Bison; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
-Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
-02111-1307, USA.
+along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.