#! /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. Please say whether you built with LEIM or not. 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