Refine release process

README-maintainer

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ RELEASE PREPARATION
 * Run a spelling checker over the source code to catch errors in
   variable names, strings, and comments.
 
-  ispell -p ispell-words **/*.hh **/*.cc manual/*
+  ispell -p ispell-words **/*.hh **/*.cc manual/* ChangeLog
 
 * If needed, run large file and image comparison tests. Configure
   options:
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ RELEASE PREPARATION
 
   For Windows, use a Windows style path, not an MSYS path for large files.
 
-* Test with clang. Pass `CC=clang CXX=clang++` to `./configure`.
+* Test with clang. Pass `CC=clang CXX=clang++` to `./configure`. Test
+  with newer version of gcc if available.
 
 * Test build on a mac.
 
@@ -114,14 +115,11 @@ CREATING A RELEASE
 * Create source release:
 
 version=x.y.z
-\rm -rf /tmp/qpdf-$version
-git archive --prefix=qpdf-$version/ HEAD . | (cd /tmp; tar xf -)
-pushd /tmp
-./qpdf-$version/make_dist
-gpg --detach-sign --armor qpdf-$version.tar.gz
+./make_dist $version
+gpg --detach-sign --armor /tmp/qpdf-$version.tar.gz
 
-  Move qpdf-$version.tar.gz and qpdf-$version.tar.gz.asc to the
-  release archive area.
+  Move /tmp/qpdf-$version.tar.gz and /tmp/qpdf-$version.tar.gz.asc to
+  the release archive area.
 
   For iterating on the release during testing, pass `--no-tests` to
   make_dist to skip the test suite.

make_dist

@@ -11,28 +11,43 @@ use File::Basename;
 use Cwd;
 use Cwd 'abs_path';
 use IO::File;
+use File::Path qw(rmtree);
 
 my $whoami = basename($0);
-my $srcdir = basename(dirname($0));
-my $pwd = getcwd();
-usage() unless $pwd eq abs_path(dirname(dirname($0)));
 
 my $run_tests = 1;
+my $keep_tmp = 0;
+my $version = undef;
 foreach my $arg (@ARGV)
 {
     if ($arg eq '--no-tests')
     {
 	$run_tests = 0;
     }
+    elsif ($arg eq '--keep-tmp')
+    {
+        $keep_tmp = 1;
+    }
+    elsif (! defined $version)
+    {
+        $version = $arg;
+    }
     else
     {
 	usage();
     }
 }
 
-usage() unless $srcdir =~ m/^qpdf-(\d+\.\d+(?:\.(a|b|rc)?\d+)?)$/;
-my $version = $1;
-cd($srcdir);
+usage() unless defined $version;
+usage() unless $version =~ m/^(\d+\.\d+(?:\.(a|b|rc)?\d+)?)$/;
+my $distname = "qpdf-$version";
+my $tmpdir = "/tmp/$distname";
+if ((-d $tmpdir) && (! $keep_tmp))
+{
+    rmtree($tmpdir);
+}
+run("git archive --prefix=qpdf-$version/ HEAD . | (cd /tmp; tar xf -)");
+cd($tmpdir);
 
 # Check versions
 my $fh = safe_open("configure.ac");
@@ -96,21 +111,25 @@ run("./autogen.sh");
 run("./configure --enable-doc-maintenance --enable-werror");
 run("make -j8 build_manual");
 run("make distclean");
-cd($pwd);
-run("tar czvf $srcdir.tar.gz-candidate $srcdir");
+cd("/tmp");
+run("tar czvf $distname.tar.gz-candidate $distname");
 if ($run_tests)
 {
-    cd($srcdir);
+    cd($tmpdir);
     run("./configure");
     run("make -j8");
     run("make check");
-    cd($pwd);
+    cd("/tmp");
+}
+rename "$distname.tar.gz-candidate", "$distname.tar.gz" or die;
+
+if (! $keep_tmp)
+{
+    rmtree($tmpdir);
 }
-rename "$srcdir.tar.gz-candidate", "$srcdir.tar.gz" or die;
 
 print "
-Source distribution created as $srcdir.tar.gz
-You can now remove $srcdir.
+Source distribution created as $tmpdir.tar.gz
 If this is a release, don't forget to tag the version control system and
 make a backup of the release tar file.
 
@@ -138,12 +157,14 @@ sub cd
 sub usage
 {
     die "
-Usage: $whoami [ --no-tests ]
+Usage: $whoami [ --no-tests --keep-tmp ] version
 
-$whoami must be run from the parent of a directory called
-qpdf-<version> which must contain a pristine export of that version of
-qpdf from the version control system. Use of --no-tests can be used
-for internally testing releases, but do not use it for a real release.
+Use of --no-tests can be used for internally testing releases, but do
+not use it for a real release.
+
+$whoami creates /tmp/qpdf-<version> and deletes it when done. With
+--keep-tmp, the directory is kept. This can be useful for debugging
+the release process.
 
 ";
 }