Order for building binary distribution: 1) Make tools on build machine * Build/install libc and header files from mach and hurd. * Build/install gcc (just LANGUAGES=c) * Build/install binutils. 2) Make everything for release; install both on build machine and dist dir. * Build/install binutils again (now using new as and ld). * Build/install gcc again. (only one stage necessary). * Build/install libc again. * Build/install everything else. See `release-steps' for Hurd source release steps. Checklist for binary image filesystems * Symlinks in /bin; esp. sh, awk, more, cc. * Symlink /lib/libtermcap.a -> /lib/libncurses.a, termcap_g.a, curses_g.a, curses.a. * Symlink /lib/ld.so -> /lib/ld.so.1. * Symlink . -> /usr. * Make sure directories exist: /tmp, /var/run. * Touch /var/log/wtmp. * Check all symlinks to make sure they don't reference /gd4. * Don't use absolute symlinks--make them all relative. * Build some static fileutils: ls, ln, cp, mv, chmod. * Make damn sure that we are only distributing the md5 libcrypt. * Make sure /include/obstack.h is from libc and not binutils. * Make sure there is no /include/i386. * Make sure there is no /i486-gnu. * Make sure we are using Hurd versions of su and uptime, not sh-utils. * Make sure we are using Hurd fsck, not e2fs. * Make install-dist from release dir. * Make sure there is only a stubby resolv.conf in the distribution. * Make sure /etc/fstab has no active members * Make sure nethack is clean * Make sure localtime is Factory * Source code for Hurd and libc must be released. * Remove .stamp files from binary tree. * Chown everything root.wheel, mode 755/644. * /tmp is 1777. * Chown /games games.games. * Check permissions on set[gu]id files in binary tree. (login, su, addauth, setauth, ids, ps, w, vmstat, vminfo, rsh, rlogin, games/lib/nethack/nethack) * Check each directory for bogus cruft files. * Especially delete .bash_history, .gnunfs*, and .stamp files, *~, *.rej * Verify installation on bare machine. * Make sure everything listed in SOURCES is on prep. * Install release * Post announcement FSF Hurd machines need in addition to the INSTALL-binary installation: * our NFS translators * our kernel * sendmail.cf, /etc/aliases * /home/* symlinks * /etc/syslog.conf