Re: generate .version in srcdir

[Jim Meyering]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Eric, Gary,
>
> this fixes a distcheck failure in branch-1_4.  But maybe you're going to
> rewrite GNUmakefile further anyway, in which case you may just want to
> ignore this patch.  ;-)
..
> diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
...
>  ifneq ($(_curr-ver),$(VERSION))
> -  _dummy := $(shell echo $(_curr-ver) > .version)
> +  _dummy := $(shell echo $(_curr-ver) > $(srcdir)/.version)
>  endif
>
>  ifneq ($(_created_version_file),1)
> -  _dummy := $(shell test -f .version || echo $(VERSION) > .version)
> +  _dummy := $(shell test -f .version || echo $(VERSION) > $(srcdir)/.version)
>  endif

FYI, a couple days ago I removed those two ifneq clauses
altogether -- from GNUmakefile in coreutils.  With the rule
to create .version in Makefile.am, those two were not needed.

There has been enough churn on this GNUmakefile that it probably
belongs in gnulib.  Then bootstrap could copy it from e.g.,
build-aux/ (though maybe with a different name) to top-level GNUmakefile.