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+#!/bin/bash
+#   Copyright (C) 1990-2014 Free Software Foundation
+#
+# This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+# 
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+# 
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+#
+
+# This script creates release packages for gdb, binutils, and other
+# packages which live in src.  It used to be implemented as the src-release
+# Makefile and prior to that was part of the top level Makefile, but that
+# turned out to be very messy and hard to maintain.
+
+set -e
+
+BZIPPROG=bzip2
+GZIPPROG=gzip
+XZPROG=xz
+MD5PROG=md5sum
+MAKE=make
+CC=gcc
+CXX=g++
+
+# Default to avoid splitting info files by setting the threshold high.
+MAKEINFOFLAGS=--split-size=5000000
+
+#
+# Support for building net releases
+
+# Files in devo used in any net release.
+DEVO_SUPPORT="README Makefile.in configure configure.ac \
+	config.guess config.sub config move-if-change \
+	COPYING COPYING.LIB install-sh config-ml.in symlink-tree \
+	mkinstalldirs ltmain.sh missing ylwrap \
+	libtool.m4 ltsugar.m4 ltversion.m4 ltoptions.m4 \
+	Makefile.def Makefile.tpl src-release config.rpath \
+	ChangeLog MAINTAINERS README-maintainer-mode \
+	lt~obsolete.m4 ltgcc.m4 depcomp mkdep compile \
+	COPYING3 COPYING3.LIB"
+
+# Files in devo/etc used in any net release.
+ETC_SUPPORT="Makefile.in configure configure.in standards.texi \
+	make-stds.texi standards.info* configure.texi configure.info* \
+	ChangeLog configbuild.* configdev.* fdl.texi texi2pod.pl gnu-oids.texi"
+
+# Get the version number of a given tool
+getver()
+{
+    tool=$1
+    if grep 'AC_INIT.*BFD_VERSION' $tool/configure.ac >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+	bfd/configure --version | sed -n -e '1s,.* ,,p'
+    elif test -f $tool/common/create-version.sh; then
+	$tool/common/create-version.sh $tool 'dummy-host' 'dummy-target' VER.tmp
+	cat VER.tmp | grep 'version\[\]' | sed 's/.*"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/' | sed 's/-cvs$//'
+        rm -f VER.tmp
+    elif test -f $tool/version.in; then
+	head -1 $tool/version.in
+    else
+	echo VERSION
+    fi
+}
+
+# Setup build directory for building release tarball
+do_proto_toplev()
+{
+    package=$1
+    ver=$2
+    tool=$3
+    support_files=$4
+    echo "==> Making $package-$ver/"
+    # Take out texinfo from a few places.
+    sed -e '/^all\.normal: /s/\all-texinfo //' \
+	-e '/^	install-texinfo /d' \
+	<Makefile.in >tmp
+    mv -f tmp Makefile.in
+    #
+    ./configure i686-pc-linux-gnu
+    $MAKE configure-host configure-target \
+	ALL_GCC="" ALL_GCC_C="" ALL_GCC_CXX="" \
+	CC_FOR_TARGET="$CC" CXX_FOR_TARGET="$CXX"
+    # Make links, and run "make diststuff" or "make info" when needed.
+    rm -rf proto-toplev
+    mkdir proto-toplev
+    dirs="$DEVO_SUPPORT $support_files $tool"
+    for d in $dirs ; do
+	if [ -d $d ]; then
+	    if [ ! -f $d/Makefile ] ; then
+		true
+	    elif grep '^diststuff:' $d/Makefile >/dev/null ; then
+		(cd $d ; $MAKE MAKEINFOFLAGS="$MAKEINFOFLAGS" diststuff) \
+		    || exit 1
+	    elif grep '^info:' $d/Makefile >/dev/null ; then
+		(cd $d ; $MAKE MAKEINFOFLAGS="$MAKEINFOFLAGS" info) \
+		    || exit 1
+	    fi
+	    if [ -d $d/proto-$d.dir ]; then
+		ln -s ../$d/proto-$d.dir proto-toplev/$d
+	    else
+		ln -s ../$d proto-toplev/$d
+	    fi
+	else
+	    if (echo x$d | grep / >/dev/null); then
+	      mkdir -p proto-toplev/`dirname $d`
+	      x=`dirname $d`
+	      ln -s ../`echo $x/ | sed -e 's,[^/]*/,../,g'`$d proto-toplev/$d
+	    else
+	      ln -s ../$d proto-toplev/$d
+	    fi
+	  fi
+	done
+	(cd etc; $MAKE MAKEINFOFLAGS="$MAKEINFOFLAGS" info)
+	$MAKE distclean
+	mkdir proto-toplev/etc
+	(cd proto-toplev/etc;
+	    for i in $ETC_SUPPORT; do
+		ln -s ../../etc/$i .
+		done)
+	#
+	# Take out texinfo from configurable dirs
+	rm proto-toplev/configure.ac
+	sed -e '/^host_tools=/s/texinfo //' \
+	    <configure.ac >proto-toplev/configure.ac
+	#
+	mkdir proto-toplev/texinfo
+	ln -s ../../texinfo/texinfo.tex	proto-toplev/texinfo/
+	if test -r texinfo/util/tex3patch ; then
+	    mkdir proto-toplev/texinfo/util && \
+		ln -s ../../../texinfo/util/tex3patch proto-toplev/texinfo/util
+	else
+	    true
+	fi
+	chmod -R og=u . || chmod og=u `find . -print`
+	#
+	# Create .gmo files from .po files.
+	for f in `find . -name '*.po' -type f -print`; do
+	    msgfmt -o `echo $f | sed -e 's/\.po$/.gmo/'` $f
+	done
+	#
+	rm -f $package-$ver
+	ln -s proto-toplev $package-$ver
+}
+
+CVS_NAMES='-name CVS -o -name .cvsignore'
+
+# Add an md5sum to the built tarball
+do_md5sum()
+{
+    echo "==> Adding md5 checksum to top-level directory"
+    (cd proto-toplev && find * -follow \( $CVS_NAMES \) -prune \
+	-o -type f -print \
+	| xargs $MD5PROG > ../md5.new)
+    rm -f proto-toplev/md5.sum
+    mv md5.new proto-toplev/md5.sum
+}
+
+# Build the release tarball
+do_tar()
+{
+    package=$1
+    ver=$2
+    echo "==> Making $package-$ver.tar"
+    rm -f $package-$ver.tar
+    find $package-$ver -follow \( $CVS_NAMES \) -prune \
+	-o -type f -print \
+	| tar cTfh - $package-$ver.tar
+}
+
+# Compress the output with bzip2
+do_bz2()
+{
+    package=$1
+    ver=$2
+    echo "==> Bzipping $package-$ver.tar.bz2"
+    rm -f $package-$ver.tar.bz2
+    $BZIPPROG -k -v -9 $package-$ver.tar
+}
+
+# Compress the output with gzip
+do_gz()
+{
+    package=$1
+    ver=$2
+    echo "==> Gzipping $package-$ver.tar.gz"
+    rm -f $package-$ver.tar.gz
+    $GZIPPROG -k -v -9 $package-$ver.tar
+}
+
+# Compress the output with xz
+do_xz()
+{
+    package=$1
+    ver=$2
+    echo "==> Xzipping $package-$ver.tar.xz"
+    rm -f $package-$ver.tar.xz
+    $XZPROG -k -v -9 $package-$ver.tar
+}
+
+# Compress the output with all selected compresion methods
+do_compress()
+{
+    package=$1
+    ver=$2
+    compressors=$3
+    for comp in $compressors; do
+	case $comp in
+	    bz2)
+		do_bz2 $package $ver;;
+	    gz)
+		do_gz $package $ver;;
+	    xz)
+		do_xz $package $ver;;
+	    *)
+		echo "Unknown compression method: $comp" && exit 1;;
+	esac
+    done
+}
+
+# Add djunpack.bat the tarball
+do_djunpack()
+{
+    package=$1
+    ver=$2
+    echo "==> Adding updated djunpack.bat to top-level directory"
+    echo - 's /gdb-[0-9\.]*/$package-'"$ver"'/'
+    sed < djunpack.bat > djunpack.new \
+	-e 's/gdb-[0-9][0-9\.]*/$package-'"$ver"'/'
+    rm -f proto-toplev/djunpack.bat
+    mv djunpack.new proto-toplev/djunpack.bat
+}
+
+# Create a release package, tar it and compress it
+tar_compress()
+{
+    package=$1
+    tool=$2
+    support_files=$3
+    compressors=$4
+    ver=$(getver $tool)
+    do_proto_toplev $package $ver $tool "$support_files"
+    do_md5sum
+    do_tar $package $ver
+    do_compress $package $ver "$compressors"
+}
+
+# Create a gdb release package, tar it and compress it
+gdb_tar_compress()
+{
+    package=$1
+    tool=$2
+    support_files=$3
+    compressors=$4
+    ver=$(getver $tool)
+    do_proto_toplev $package $ver $tool "$support_files"
+    do_md5sum
+    do_djunpack $package $ver
+    do_tar $package $ver
+    do_compress $package $ver "$compressors"
+}
+
+# The FSF "binutils" release includes gprof and ld.
+BINUTILS_SUPPORT_DIRS="bfd gas include libiberty opcodes ld elfcpp gold gprof intl setup.com makefile.vms cpu"
+binutils_release()
+{
+    compressors=$1
+    package=binutils
+    tool=binutils
+    tar_compress $package $tool "$BINUTILS_SUPPORT_DIRS" "$compressors"
+}
+
+GAS_SUPPORT_DIRS="bfd include libiberty opcodes intl setup.com makefile.vms"
+gas_release()
+{
+    compressors=$1
+    package=gas
+    tool=gas
+    tar_compress $package $tool "$GAS_SUPPORT_DIRS" "$compressors"
+}
+
+GDB_SUPPORT_DIRS="bfd include libiberty opcodes readline sim intl libdecnumber cpu"
+gdb_release()
+{
+    compressors=$1
+    package=gdb
+    tool=gdb
+    gdb_tar_compress $package $tool "$GDB_SUPPORT_DIRS" "$compressors"
+}
+
+# Corresponding to the CVS "sim" module.
+SIM_SUPPORT_DIRS="bfd opcodes libiberty include intl gdb/version.in makefile.vms"
+sim_release()
+{
+    compressors=$1
+    package=sim
+    tool=sim
+    tar_compress $package $tool "$SIM_SUPPORT_DIRS" "$compressors"
+}
+
+usage()
+{
+    echo "src-release.sh <options> <release>"
+    echo "options:"
+    echo "  -b: Compress with bzip2"
+    echo "  -g: Compress with gzip"
+    echo "  -x: Compress with xz"
+    exit 1
+}
+
+build_release()
+{
+    release=$1
+    compressors=$2
+    case $release in
+	binutils)
+	    binutils_release "$compressors";;
+	gas)
+	    gas_release "$compressors";;
+	gdb)
+	    gdb_release "$compressors";;
+	sim)
+	    sim_release "$compressors";;
+	*)
+	    echo "Unknown release name: $release" && usage;;
+    esac
+}
+
+compressors=""
+
+while getopts ":gbx" opt; do
+    case $opt in
+	b)
+	    compressors="$compressors bz2";;
+	g)
+	    compressors="$compressors gz";;
+	x)
+	    compressors="$compressors xz";;
+	\?)
+	    echo "Invalid option: -$OPTARG" && usage;;
+  esac
+done
+shift $((OPTIND -1))
+release=$1
+
+build_release $release "$compressors"
