Re: maint.mk: absolute VPATH build fix

[Akim Demaille]

Le 30 juil. 2012 à 09:08, Jim Meyering a écrit :

> Saving the commit message in a variable should do what we want:
> 
>       msg=$$(emit-commit-log) || exit 1;                              \
>       (cd $(srcdir) && $(VC) commit -m "$$msg" -a)

Perfect!

Installed as follows.

commit ed4e07a077c43052ebb60ea813698f289ba2f367
Author: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Jul 30 11:09:15 2012 +0200

    maint.mk: absolute VPATH issue
    
    * top/maint.mk (release-prep): Help Git find .git/.
    From Jim Meyering.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ddd205e..ad0c05b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-07-30  Akim Demaille  <address@hidden>
+
+       maint.mk: absolute VPATH issue
+       * top/maint.mk (release-prep): Help Git find .git/.
+       From Jim Meyering.
+
 2012-07-29  Akim Demaille  <address@hidden>
 
        gitlog-to-changelog: fix previous change
diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index 2af938e..fa0280e 100644
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -1387,9 +1387,8 @@ release-prep:
        echo $(VERSION) > $(prev_version_file)
        $(MAKE) update-NEWS-hash
        perl -pi -e '$$. == 3 and print "$(gl_noteworthy_news_)\n\n\n"' 
$(srcdir)/NEWS
-       $(emit-commit-log) > .ci-msg
-       $(VC) commit -F .ci-msg -a
-       rm .ci-msg
+       msg=$$($(emit-commit-log)) || exit 1;           \
+       (cd $(srcdir) && $(VC) commit -m "$$msg" -a)
 
 # Override this with e.g., -s $(srcdir)/some_other_name.texi
 # if the default $(PACKAGE)-derived name doesn't apply.