[PATCH] maint.mk: fix VPATH issues

[Akim Demaille]

Hi!

There is many small issues with VPATH builds, in the
release procedure.  A first one.

From c1a33e591861261dcdc9361511835c83c0a22f9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 12:21:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] maint.mk: fix VPATH issues.

* top/maint.mk (news-check): GNU Make understand $< very well.
(release-prep): NEWS is in $(srcdir).
---
 top/maint.mk |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index 11cb6a6..f0b889b 100644
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -1059,7 +1059,7 @@ sc_makefile_at_at_check:
          && { echo '$(ME): use $$(...), not @...@' 1>&2; exit 1; } || :
 
 news-check: NEWS
-       if sed -n $(news-check-lines-spec)p $(srcdir)/NEWS              \
+       if sed -n $(news-check-lines-spec)p $<                          \
            | grep -E $(news-check-regexp) >/dev/null; then             \
          :;                                                            \
        else                                                            \
@@ -1367,7 +1367,7 @@ release-prep:
        fi
        echo $(VERSION) > $(prev_version_file)
        $(MAKE) update-NEWS-hash
-       perl -pi -e '$$. == 3 and print "$(gl_noteworthy_news_)\n\n\n"' NEWS
+       perl -pi -e '$$. == 3 and print "$(gl_noteworthy_news_)\n\n\n"' 
$(srcdir)/NEWS
        $(emit-commit-log) > .ci-msg
        $(VC) commit -F .ci-msg -a
        rm .ci-msg
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1.7.10.4