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diff --git a/fontconfig/INSTALL b/fontconfig/INSTALL new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0017eed40 --- /dev/null +++ b/fontconfig/INSTALL @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Fontconfig is built with the traditional configure script: + + $ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man + +This should generate valid Makefiles, then: + + $ make + $ make install + +If you're going to package fontconfig for release, there are several +important steps: + + 1. Create new version + sh new-version.sh 2.xx.xx + + 2. rebuild the configuration files with autogen.sh + sh autogen.sh --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --localstatedir=/var + + 3. make distcheck (NB: won't work without docbook-utils -PL) + + 4. Copy ChangeLog-2.x.y and fontconfig-2.x.y.tar.gz to + + freedesktop.org:/srv/fontconfig.freedesktop.org/www/release + + 5. Update the Fontconfig Devel wiki page + http://fontconfig.org/wiki/Devel + + 6. Update the fontconfig documentation + + scp -rp doc/fontconfig-user.html doc/fontconfig-devel fontconfig.org:/srv/fontconfig.freedesktop.org/www + + 7. Compute md5sums for release files: + md5sum fontconfig-2.4.x.tar.gz ChangeLog-2.4.x + + 8. Post a note to fontconfig@fontconfig.org. Include the md5sums. + gpg sign the message. + |