maint.mk bug

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi all,

I'm trying to roll an alpha release of Libtool (the first release using the
gnulib infrastructure), but it is proving less than straight forward,
unfortunately.

Trying to run `make announcement` with the latest maint.mk from gnulib yields:

    fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
    announce-gen: option --gpg-key-id requires an argument
    announce-gen: option --gnulib-version requires an argument
    Try 'announce-gen --help' for more information.

The --gpg-key-id error is because Mac OS ships with gpg2 (and even then omits 
the
gpgv2 binary, grr) so the only way to get a gpgv is to install gnupg-1.4.x 
myself.
More properly I should figure out how to make a libtool release-manager key pair
and give copies to all libtool maintainers so that I can hardcode it into 
cfg.mk,
right?

I can also work around the --gnulib-version error by manually getting the gnulib
revision from my zsh prompt and adding it to the make command-line, to override 
the
following:

    gnulib-version = $$(cd $(gnulib_dir) && git describe)

which is a syntax error for latest home-brew git (1.8.4.1) and the git shipped 
with
Mac OS 10.8.5 (1.8.3.4):

    $ cd gnulib
    $ git describe
    fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.

I will finish the release process by hand, but wanted to ping the list so that 
the
bugs don't get forgotten :)

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

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