maint.mk: fix tight-scope.mk generation in VPATH builds.

* top/maint.mk (tight-scope.mk): Make sure to prefix file
reference with $(srcdir) so that the file is found correctly even
when running `make syntax-check' in a VPATH build.

Signed-off-by: Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 962b2c4..fd103f9 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2011-11-15  Gary V. Vaughan  <gary@gnu.org>
+
+       maint.mk: fix tight-scope.mk generation in VPATH builds.
+       * top/maint.mk (tight-scope.mk): Make sure to prefix file
+       reference with $(srcdir) so that the file is found correctly even
+       when running `make syntax-check' in a VPATH build.
+
 2011-11-13  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
            Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
 

diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index d2f5830..76844a0 100644 (file)
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -1438,7 +1438,7 @@ sc_tight_scope: tight-scope.mk
 
 tight-scope.mk: $(ME)
        @rm -f $@ $@-t
-       @perl -ne '/^# TS-start/.../^# TS-end/ and print' $(ME) > $@-t
+       @perl -ne '/^# TS-start/.../^# TS-end/ and print' $(srcdir)/$(ME) > $@-t
        @chmod a=r $@-t && mv $@-t $@
 
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