Make "gnulib-tool --version" work from any directory.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e393de131313c6d4dc0461385851b485ee48ec32..0b7e5b7dca726aa89ffed0bd5ef61ec53f0b69e9 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-09-26  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       * gnulib-tool (func_version): Change directory to $gnulib_dir before
+       invoking git-version-gen.
+
 2008-09-26  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        * posix-modules: Update to directory names changed on 2008-01-19.

diff --git a/gnulib-tool b/gnulib-tool
index 977587caa2726aaf21e74c1873b19f1b7fe543a8..56b185a381ed1dd119c6947b8cf31b0ef954770e 100755 (executable)
--- a/gnulib-tool
+++ b/gnulib-tool
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ q
     date=`echo "$date" | sed -e "$sed_year_before_time"`
     # Use GNU date to compute the time in GMT.
     date=`date -d "$date" -u +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"`
-    version=' '`"$gnulib_dir"/build-aux/git-version-gen /dev/null | sed -e 's/-dirty/-modified/'`
+    version=' '`cd "$gnulib_dir" && ./build-aux/git-version-gen /dev/null | sed -e 's/-dirty/-modified/'`
   else
     if test -d "$gnulib_dir"/CVS \
        && (cvs --version) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then