Fix VPATH 'make dist' with GNU make and non-VCS tarball.

* top/GNUmakefile (_curr-ver): Don't use $(srcdir) unnecessarily.
Reported by Stepan Kasal.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6fd636246c79354f4f8402b77bacdbd6936b51fa..d84e4975fd63a0f937aecbd0688df9273d546a97 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-06-19  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
+
+       Fix VPATH 'make dist' with GNU make and non-VCS tarball.
+       * top/GNUmakefile (_curr-ver): Don't use $(srcdir) unnecessarily.
+       Reported by Stepan Kasal.
+
 2008-06-18  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        * lib/fatal-signal.c (init_fatal_signals): Add comment.

diff --git a/top/GNUmakefile b/top/GNUmakefile
index 062900b547077af9ea1506a5ac8f2842287b08a2..31bd873fadeca303c97f6b3aba39e9ed0eabc500 100644 (file)
--- a/top/GNUmakefile
+++ b/top/GNUmakefile
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ ifeq ($(_have-git-version-gen)0,yes$(MAKELEVEL))
   _is-dist-target = $(filter-out %clean, \
     $(filter maintainer-% dist% alpha beta major,$(MAKECMDGOALS)))
   ifneq (,$(_is-dist-target))
-    _curr-ver := $(shell cd $(srcdir) && ./$(_build-aux)/git-version-gen \
-                   $(srcdir)/.tarball-version)
+    _curr-ver := $(shell cd $(srcdir) \
+                   && $(_build-aux)/git-version-gen .tarball-version)
     ifneq ($(_curr-ver),$(VERSION))
       ifeq ($(_curr-ver),UNKNOWN)
         $(info WARNING: unable to verify if $(VERSION) is correct version)