Update notes on how to make a release

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2018-01-13 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
* src-release.sh: Update copyright notice. Change reference to devo
to be a reference to root.
2018-01-10 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
* config-ml.in: Sync with gcc sources.

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2018-01-13 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
* README-how-to-make-a-release: Update notes.
* po/binutils.pot: Regenerated.
2018-01-13 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>

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3. When branch day arrives add markers for the upcoming release to
gas, ld, gold and binutils NEWS files.
[If using the make-prerelease.sh script, check that
common.sh has the right values].
[make-prelease.sh command i]
[make-prelease.sh command C]
Likewise for all of the ChangeLog files.
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7. Regenerate various files on both branch and HEAD by configuring
with --enable-maintainer-mode. No need to check in changes to
the autoconf/automake/etc files, but be sure the .pot files are
up to date.
up to date. NB/ Remember to include gold and gprof.
8. Create an initial prerelease:
a. Bump the version on the branch, and check this in.
a. Change the version on the branch (bfd/version.m4), regenerate
the files, and check this in.
b. Create a source tarball:
b. Create a source tarball of the branch sources:
git clean -f -d -x
CFLAGS="-O -g0" ./src-release.sh -b binutils
rm -rf $release_dir/proto-toplev
rm $release_dir/binutils-$version
rm $release_dir/binutils-$version.tar
mv $release_dir/binutils-$version.tar.lzip ..
./src-release -x binutils
c. Build a test target using this tarball.
d. Upload the prerelease snapshot to the FTP:
scp ../binutils-$version.tar.bz2 sourceware.org:~ftp/pub/binutils/snapshots
ssh sourceware.org md5sum \~ftp/pub/binutils/snapshots/binutils-$version.tar.bz2
md5sum ../binutils-$version.tar.bz2
scp ../binutils-$version.tar.xz sourceware.org:~ftp/pub/binutils/snapshots
ssh sourceware.org md5sum ~ftp/pub/binutils/snapshots/binutils-$version.tar.xz
9. Send it to the Translation Project:

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Copyright (C) 1990-2017 Free Software Foundation
# Copyright (C) 1990-2018 Free Software Foundation
#
# This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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#
# Support for building net releases
# Files in devo used in any net release.
# Files in root used in any net release.
DEVO_SUPPORT="README Makefile.in configure configure.ac \
config.guess config.sub config move-if-change \
COPYING COPYING.LIB install-sh config-ml.in symlink-tree \