The announcement target of maint.mk failed unnecessarily in a VPATH tree. I noticed this while syncing modern gnulib maint.mk into autoconf, which already had this patch:
-- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net
From aab6ab6d121b644d99c3cf63901163e3bef3dc54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Blake <e...@byu.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:23:08 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] maint: support 'make announcement' from a VPATH build
* top/maint.mk (announcement): Look for correct NEWS file.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <e...@byu.net>
---
ChangeLog | 5 +++++
top/maint.mk | 2 +-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2d78186..1d1638e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-01-05 Eric Blake <e...@byu.net>
+
+ maint: support 'make announcement' from a VPATH build
+ * top/maint.mk (announcement): Look for correct NEWS file.
+
2009-11-17 Eric Blake <e...@byu.net>
manywarnings: add more warnings
diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index e4a6359..40f306e 100644
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ announcement: NEWS ChangeLog $(rel-files)
--prev=$(PREV_VERSION) \
--curr=$(VERSION) \
--gpg-key-id=$(gpg_key_ID) \
- --news=NEWS \
+ --news=$(srcdir)/NEWS \
--bootstrap-tools=$(bootstrap-tools) \
--gnulib-version=$(gnulib-version) \
--no-print-checksums \
--
1.6.4.2
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