Build RTEMS

[Chris Johns]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 03/10/2013 12:01 AM, Chris Johns wrote:
>> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> We need a release process and snapshot tarballs - Pointing users to the
>>> git swamp is not helpful.
>>
>> We do not need to manually make snapshot tarballs. The cgit web
>> interface provides a simple fast way to get a tarball. For example the
>>
>> http://git.rtems.org/rtems/snapshot/rtems-master.tar.bz2
> I am well aware about git being able to produce tarballs, but ....
>
>> The same goes for 4.10.* branches, any other release, in fact any commit.
> ... these are mere "git-shapshots" and which are _not_ equivalent to
> (pre-)release tarballs.
>

Yes pre-release tarballs would require this. I assume release candidate 
tarballs are generated once the release branch is created. I was 
referring to snapshots during the development phase.

> (Pre-)Release tarballs contain all generated sources (e.g.
> auto*generated files), ChangeLogs, are subject to a release-process
> (ABI/API-freeze) and proper version numbering. In auto*tools's speak,
> pre-release tarballs are generated by "make dist" and carry no
> dependency on any VCS.

Great. You are most welcome to create and maintain them.

Chris