#! /bin/bash if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then echo "usage: $0 " >&2 exit 1 fi if [ ! -f INSTALL -o ! -f configure -o ! -d lib-src ]; then echo "this script should be run in the emacs root directory" >&2 exit 2 fi OLD=$1 NEW=$2 outfile=emacs-$NEW.announce oldtag=EMACS_PRETEST_$(echo $OLD|tr . _) newtag=EMACS_PRETEST_$(echo $NEW|tr . _) if [ -f $outfile ]; then echo "$outfile exists" echo -n "interrupt to abort, ENTER to overwrite "; read answer fi echo -n "tag name for OLD emacs version $OLD [$oldtag]: "; read answer if [ "$answer" ]; then oldtag=$answer; fi echo -n "tag name for NEW emacs version $NEW [$newtag]: "; read answer if [ "$answer" ]; then newtag=$answer; fi exec > $outfile cat < Please report results from compiling and running the pretest to . Your feedback is necessary for us to know on which platforms the pretest has been tried. If you have the tars from the previous pretest, and you have the \`xdelta' utility, you can instead download the much smaller You can use a command like $ xdelta patch XDELTA PREVIOUS-TAR CURRENT-TAR to generate the new tar from the old one, where XDELTA is the xdelta file you downloaded, PREVIOUS-TAR is the tar file from the previous pretest, and CURRENT-TAR is the name of the tar file you downloaded. Information about xdelta can be found on the GNU ftp site, in /non-gnu/xdelta.README. Changes since $OLD EOF make-changelog-diff $oldtag $newtag echo " announcement created in $outfile" >&2 # arch-tag: 605e00c7-7330-4c45-81e1-2ed53a13c39f