[gccsdk] Release checklist

[John Tytgat]

In message <4B32A61F.7040109 at chocky.org>
          Peter Naulls <peter at chocky.org> wrote:

> I've updated all the bits for package generation [...]

Thanks for the help and cross checking.  I've done some minor finetuning
here and there and sent again the CMunge changes we've made so far to
Justin Fletcher (cfr cmunge/Docs/Copyright requirements).

I would like to give myself and anyone else a day or so for further
checking and finally release this.

> One issue with the zip files right now is that the native tools we
> are creating are dynamic ELF, which is probably not ideal given
> the only superficially tested of shared libraries, and to no
> immediate advantage.

I expect slightly faster build times as the main ELF binaries are smaller
(when UnixLib remains in memory).

I don't have a strong opinion whether we should change this.  I do
have sympathy for Alan's point of why we should have our own cake and
eat it.

> I don't know where in the build this needs
> to be fixed up.  Once this is done, I will need to recheck the
> packages.  We are running a bit short of time before Xmas, so
> I don't know if it'll all be done before then.

I guess you can do this by building a static cross-compiler
("./built-it -static") and a shared library enabled RISC OS native
build with that cross-compiler ("./built-it riscos") but I don't think
I've tried this before.  It could very well be that this can be done with
less effort.

John.
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