ROUTINE DEVELOPMENT Default: ./configure --enable-werror --disable-shared Debugging: ./configure CFLAGS="-g" CXXFLAGS="-g" --enable-werror --disable-shared Memory checks: ./configure CFLAGS="-fsanitize=address -fsanitize=undefined -g" \ CXXFLAGS="-fsanitize=address -fsanitize=undefined -g" \ LDFLAGS="-fsanitize=address -fsanitize=undefined" \ --enable-werror --disable-shared CODING RULES * Avoid atoi. Use QUtil::string_to_int instead. It does overflow/underflow checking. * Remember to avoid using `operator[]` with `std::string` or `std::vector`. Instead, use `at()`. See README-hardening.md for details. RELEASE PREPARATION * Each year, update copyright notices. Just do a case-insensitive search for copyright. Don't forget copyright in manual. Also update debian copyright in debian package. Last updated: 2019. * Check all open issues in the sourceforge trackers and on github. * Check `TODO` file to make sure all planned items for the release are done or retargeted. * Run a spelling checker over the source code to catch errors in variable names, strings, and comments. ispell -p ispell-words **/*.hh **/*.cc manual/* ChangeLog * If needed, run large file and image comparison tests. Configure options: --enable-test-compare-images --with-large-file-test-path=/path For Windows, use a Windows style path, not an MSYS path for large files. * Test with clang. Pass `CC=clang CXX=clang++` to `./configure`. Test with newer version of gcc if available. * Test build on a mac. * Test with address sanitizer as described above. * A small handful of additional files have been taken from autotools programs. These should probably be updated from time to time. * `config.guess`, `config.sub`, `ltmain.sh`, and the `m4` directory: these were created by running `libtoolize -c`. To update, run `libtoolize -f -c` or remove the files and rerun `libtoolize`. * Other files copied as indicated: ``` cp /usr/share/automake-1.11/install-sh . cp /usr/share/automake-1.11/mkinstalldirs . ``` The entire contents of the `m4` directory came from `libtool.m4`. If we had some additional local parts, we could also add those to the `m4` directory. In order for this to work, it is necessary to run `aclocal -I m4` before running `autoheader` and `autoconf`. The `autogen.sh` script handles this. * If any interfaces were added or changed, check C API to see whether changes are appropriate there as well. If necessary, review the casting policy in the manual, and ensure that integer types are properly handled. * Increment shared library version information as needed (`LT_*` in `configure.ac`) * Test for binary compatibility: * Check out the last release * ./autogen.sh && ./configure --enable-werror && make -j$(nproc) * Check out the current version * ./autogen.sh && ./configure --enable-werror && make -j$(nproc) build_libqpdf * Checkout the last release * make -k check NO_REBUILD=1 * Update release notes in manual. Look at diffs and ChangeLog. Update release date in `manual/qpdf-manual.xml`. Remember to ensure that the entities at the top of the document are consistent with the release notes for both version and release date. * Make sure version numbers are consistent in the following locations: * configure.ac * libqpdf/QPDF.cc * manual/qpdf-manual.xml `make_dist` verifies this consistency. * Add a release entry to ChangeLog. CREATING A RELEASE * Push to master. The azure pipeline will create an artifact called distribution which will contain all the distribution files. Download these, verify the checksums from the job output, rename to remove -ci from the names, and copy to the release archive area. * Sign the source distribution: version=x.y.z gpg --detach-sign --armor qpdf-$version.tar.gz * Build and test the debian package * Sign the releases. The release archive area should contain the Windows binaries, the AppImage, the source tarball, and the source tarball signature. \rm -f *.{md5,sha1,sha512} files=(*) for i in md5 sha1 sha512; do ${i}sum $files >| qpdf-$version.$i gpg --clearsign --armor qpdf-$version.$i mv qpdf-$version.$i.asc qpdf-$version.$i done chmod 444 * chmod 555 *.AppImage * When creating releases on github and sourceforge, remember to copy `README-what-to-download.md` separately onto the download area if needed. * Push the master branch to github. Create and push a signed tag. This should be run with HEAD pointing to the tip of master. git rev-parse master @ git push upstream master git tag -s release-qpdf-$version HEAD -m"qpdf $version" git push upstream release-qpdf-$version * Create a github release after pushing the tag. `gcurl` is an alias that includes the auth token. # Create release url=$(gcurl -s -XPOST https://api.github.com/repos/qpdf/qpdf/releases -d'{"tag_name": "release-qpdf-'$version'", "name": "qpdf '$version'", "draft": true}' | jq -r '.url') # Get upload url upload_url=$(gcurl -s $url | jq -r '.upload_url' | sed -E -e 's/\{.*\}//') echo $upload_url # Upload all the files. You can add a label attribute too, which # overrides the name. for i in *; do mime=$(file -b --mime-type $i) gcurl -H "Content-Type: $mime" --data-binary @$i "$upload_url?name=$i" done If needed, go onto github and make any manual updates such as indicating a pre-release, adding release notes, etc. # Publish release gcurl -XPOST $url -d'{"draft": false}' * Upload files to sourceforge. Make the source package the default for all but Windows, and make the 32-bit mingw build the default for Windows. Publish a news item manually on sourceforge. * Update the web page to indicate the new version and to put the new documentation in the `files` subdirectory of the website on sourceforge.net. * Email the qpdf-announce list. OTHER NOTES To construct a source distribution from a pristine checkout, `make_dist` does the following: ./configure --enable-doc-maintenance --enable-werror make build_manual make distclean To create a source release of external libs, do an export from the version control system into a directory called `qpdf-external-libs` and just make a zip file of the result called `qpdf-external-libs-src.zip`. See the README.txt file there for information on creating binary external libs releases. Run this from the external-libs repository: git archive --prefix=external-libs/ HEAD . | (cd /tmp; tar xf -) cd /tmp zip -r qpdf-external-libs-src.zip external-libs When releasing on sourceforge, `external-libs` distributions go in `external-libs/yyyymmdd`, and qpdf distributions go in `qpdf/vvv`. For local iteration on the AppImage generation, follow the release procedures for building the AppImage, but instead of passing git clone options to the docker command, copy qpdf to /tmp/build. You can also pass -e SKIP_TESTS=1 to docker to skip the test suite, useful for rapid iteration. Set up /tmp/build as in the release process. cp -a $PWD /tmp/build docker run --privileged -ti --rm -e SKIP_TESTS=1 -v /tmp/build:/tmp/build qpdfbuild GENERAL BUILD STUFF QPDF uses autoconf and libtool but does not use automake. The only files distributed with the qpdf source distribution that are not controlled are `configure`, `libqpdf/qpdf/qpdf-config.h.in`, `aclocal.m4`, and some documentation. See above for the steps required to prepare a source distribution. If building or editing documentation, configure with `--enable-doc-maintenance`. This will ensure that all tools or files required to validate and build documentation are available. If you want to run `make maintainer-clean` or `make distclean` and you haven't run `./configure`, you can pass `CLEAN=1` to make on the command line to prevent it from complaining about configure not having been run. If you want to run checks without rerunning the build, pass `NO_REBUILD=1` to make. This can be useful for special testing scenarios such as validation of memory fixes or binary compatibility. LOCAL WINDOWS TESTING PROCEDURE This is what I do for routine testing on Windows. From Windows, git clone from my Linux clone, and unzip `external-libs`. Look at `make_windows_releases`. Set up path the same way and run whichever `./config-*` is appropriate for whichever compiler I need to test with. Start one of the Visual Studio native compiler shells, and from there, run one of the msys shells. The Visual Studio step is not necessary if just building with mingw.