Creating a test release

As previously stated, the user needs to create a working area in which to make his changes. This is called a test release and is created with the SRT command newrel. This command need only be executed once per test release directory.

For example:

• cd <wherever>
  For example, in Figs. 3 and  4, the user typed cd ~foo.
• newrel -t <base-release> <new-release>
  The "-t" switch is required and tells newrel that this is a developer's working area and NOT a new official release to be created in $SRT_DIST. <base-release> is the official release to work off from. In many cases, this is development. <new-release> is the arbitrary string that you define to be your working directory. For example, in Figs. 3 and  4, the developer typed newrel -t current test.

  This created the test directory and populated it with the main GNUmakefile and empty sub-directories include, lib, and bin, etc. It did not create the pkgA or pkgB directories. The release number <base-release> is written to a file .current, used by GNUmakefile to determine which production release to use.

• cd <new-release>
  For example, in Figs. 3 and  4, the user typed cd test.
• srt_super_init
  This is an optional command that should be executed if the user wants super test functionality.