This fixes a problem Paul noticed with grep-2.15:
From 4c2f17d2a671eb6fc6ae318647040598f67705cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@fb.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 19:26:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] maint.mk: fix "release" target to build _version
This fixes a bug in README-release whereby following the outlined
steps, one would publish a tarball whose programs would report
--version output not consistent with the package version number.
This bug caused grep-2.15 to produce a grep program whose
--version option made it print 2.14.56-1e3d rather than 2.15.
* top/maint.mk (release): Making this target build "_version"
ensures that the new version number is reflected in configure.
---
ChangeLog | 11 +++++++++++
top/maint.mk | 1 +
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8992e91..ba3d83a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+2013-10-26 Jim Meyering <meyer...@fb.com>
+
+ maint.mk: fix "release" target to build _version
+ This fixes a bug in README-release whereby following the outlined
+ steps, one would publish a tarball whose programs would report
+ --version output not consistent with the package version number.
+ This bug caused grep-2.15 to produce a grep program whose
+ --version option made it print 2.14.56-1e3d rather than 2.15.
+ * top/maint.mk (release): Making this target build "_version"
+ ensures that the new version number is reflected in configure.
+
2013-10-21 Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu>
install-reloc: Support multi-binary installation.
diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index c9f8cc8..bf8f53a 100644
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -1424,6 +1424,7 @@ alpha beta stable: $(local-check) writable-files
$(submodule-checks)
$(AM_V_at)$(MAKE) -s emit_upload_commands RELEASE_TYPE=$@
release:
+ $(AM_V_GEN)$(MAKE) _version
$(AM_V_GEN)$(MAKE) $(release-type)
# Override this in cfg.mk if you follow different procedures.
--
1.8.4.1.600.g3d092bf
