Making Releases

Making the source tarball

The source tarball includes some generated files, such as Parser.hs (generated from Parser.y.pp). We therefore need to do a build before generating the source tarball.

First check out the branch, and ensure that the version number and RELEASE near the top of configure.ac are correct. Then:

$ perl boot
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make sdist

You should now have source tarballs sdistprep/ghc-<VERSION>-src.tar.bz2 and sdistprep/ghc-<VERSION>-testsuite.tar.bz2.

Making the binary builds

Untar the src tarball. Then:

$ cat > mk/build.mk <<EOF
V=1
HADDOCK_DOCS=YES
LATEX_DOCS=YES
HSCOLOUR_SRCS=YES
BUILD_DOCBOOK_HTML=YES
BUILD_DOCBOOK_PDF=YES
BUILD_DOCBOOK_PS=YES

If on Linux:

echo "BeConservative=YES" >> mk/build.mk

Then:

$ ./configure      2>&1 | tee ../conf.log
$ make             2>&1 | tee ../make.log
$ make binary-dist 2>&1 | tee ../bd.log