Hi Jim, On 31 Oct 2011, at 04:25, Jim Meyering wrote: > FYI, I've just pushed the following fix. > > I share blame, as the reviewer. > I did not test Friday's change until today. > > Since Friday's commit 05e2d798, "maint.mk: don't maintain a second > build-aux variable", "syntax-check" would do nothing but succeed with > the "No version control files detected..." diagnostic (unless you > happened to override _build-aux via cfg.mk). > * top/GNUmakefile (_autoreconf, _build-aux): Move default definitions > to precede inclusion of maint.mk. Otherwise, these variables would > be used undefined in any project that does not override the default.
Oh, ouch. Sorry about that. I should have tested without a cfg.mk override before submitting, but didn't think to look because it was working fine in my tree without the patch. My bad. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
