Re: maint.mk: absolute VPATH build fix

[Jim Meyering]

Akim Demaille wrote:
> It looks like I'm having problems to write from @lrde.  Sorry
> about duplicates if they finally arrive.
>
> commit d7d165a2386db7ba2bf44087aef9dd097bc2f8fd
> Author: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
> Date:   Sat Jul 28 12:40:53 2012 +0200
>
>     maint.mk: absolute VPATH build fix
>
>     * top/maint.mk (gpg_key_ID): Help git find .git when, for instance,
>     $(srcdir) is not a parent of $(builddir).
>
> diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
> index baff0e9..386959b 100644
> --- a/top/maint.mk
> +++ b/top/maint.mk
> @@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ bootstrap-tools ?= autoconf,automake,gnulib
>  # If it's not already specified, derive the GPG key ID from
>  # the signed tag we've just applied to mark this release.
>  gpg_key_ID ?= \
> -  $$(git cat-file tag v$(VERSION) \
> +  $$(git --git-dir $(srcdir)/.git cat-file tag v$(VERSION) \

Hi Akim,
That looks fine.  Thanks.
Please add an entry to the ChangeLog file, too.