bug#22070: Recreating release 1.6 from git

[Doug Evans]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Doug Evans <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Is there a recipe for recreating (as close as possible, but not
>> necessarily identical to) the 1.6 release from git?
>>
>> There is a v1.6 tag so I can begin with that.
>> It's the next step I'm not clear on.
>> I can run the bootstrap script and get something that's buildable,
>> but I'm left with, IIUC, all of gnulib instead of just the pieces that
>> went into the 1.6 release.
>>
>> There's also the issue of using the same autoconf/automake/etc. but I
>> can manage that as needed.
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> You should be able to come very close by looking at
> the release announcement (for selected autotools
> releases) and then following the steps in README-release.
> Bottom line, "make dist" does the job.

Indeed.  :-)

IWBN if these instructions were in README-hacking or some such.
Or at least a pointer to where to find them.
There is README-release but it's generated at "make dist" time
(presumably for good reasons, but there's good stuff in there
that would be nice to be able to easily find after a git clone
and before anything else).