If you built the "Standard" tarball, you should move it someplace else along with its signature, because this procedure will overwrite it.

Start from a fresh copy by running the command make maintainer-clean-recursive in the directory where you checked out Lire's source code.

Add the tarballs of the required libraries in the extras subdirectory. These tarballs can be downloaded using wget.

1. wget http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/XML/XML-Parser.2.30.tar.gz

2. wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/expat/expat-1.95.2.tar.gz

Set the version and prepare the source tree by running the command ./bootstrap.

Build Lire.

1. Run ./configure

2. Run make

Create the tarball by running the command make followed by the command make distcheck.

This will build a tarball and then make sure that the content of this tarball can be built and installed. If that command fails, Lire isn't ready to be released. Fix the errors before making the release.

Rename the generated tarball to lire-full-version.tar.gz.

Sign Lire's tarball with your public key. To do this with GnuPG, run gpg --detach-sign --armor lire-full-version.tar.gz.

A file lire-full-version.tar.gz.asc will get created. Publish this file, together with the tarball. Now, people downloading the tarball can verify its integrity by downloading the .asc along with it, as well as your public key and running gpg --verify lire-full-version.tar.gz.asc .