git-version-gen: allow use on EBCDIC hosts

* build-aux/git-version-gen (dirty): Use literal rather than tying
ourselves to ascii.
Reported by Steve Goetze.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 94f0e576c22607494a037fdf9eabfcb95c406dbe..d09e5e02eb6ff08648c229aa60d0e1ade83f712b 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2010-04-26  Eric Blake  <eblake@redhat.com>
+
+       git-version-gen: allow use on EBCDIC hosts
+       * build-aux/git-version-gen (dirty): Use literal rather than tying
+       ourselves to ascii.
+       Reported by Steve Goetze.
+
 2010-04-25  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        netdb: Add support for GNULIB_POSIXCHECK.

diff --git a/build-aux/git-version-gen b/build-aux/git-version-gen
index e754c77d6a383a03a16e42d6c83f4b7af4ced227..be85b6d88a2df9d12862236d4562f806bf97ce1e 100755 (executable)
--- a/build-aux/git-version-gen
+++ b/build-aux/git-version-gen
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # Print a version string.
-scriptversion=2010-02-24.17; # UTC
+scriptversion=2010-04-26.15; # UTC
 
 # Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ case "$dirty" in
 esac
 
 # Omit the trailing newline, so that m4_esyscmd can use the result directly.
-echo "$v" | tr -d '\012'
+echo "$v" | tr -d '
+'
 
 # Local variables:
 # eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)