maint.mk: avoid obscure sc_copyright_check failure in coreutils

* top/maint.mk (v_etc_file): Prepend $(gnulib_dir)/, to avoid
false positives (whose names may be ill-chosen) when searching
non-VC'd files.  Otherwise, a file named "a b/lib/version-etc.c"
would cause a false-positive.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 47e82e467c31ea0d8c29d8751fe366e03ee39823..1ba0d9260f5d7bc4131a04abdb2cecc3cdd80771 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2010-09-04  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
 
+       maint.mk: avoid obscure sc_copyright_check failure in coreutils
+       * top/maint.mk (v_etc_file): Prepend $(gnulib_dir)/, to avoid
+       false positives (whose names may be ill-chosen) when searching
+       non-VC'd files.  Otherwise, a file named "a b/lib/version-etc.c"
+       would cause a false-positive.
+
        avoid coreutils "make distcheck" failure
        Coreutils tests with an absolute build directory name that contains
        a space.  Not quoting this directory name caused a failure.

diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index 59e9cb58ebdc39bd4239cc952c6aa4ad5173ae22..32320f8639a727b7a0ca33603dea229b957d06fd 100644 (file)
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ writable-files:
          test "$$fail" && exit 1 || : ;                                \
        fi
 
-v_etc_file = lib/version-etc.c
+v_etc_file = $(gnulib_dir)/lib/version-etc.c
 sample-test = tests/sample-test
 texi = doc/$(PACKAGE).texi
 # Make sure that the copyright date in $(v_etc_file) is up to date.