Re: GNUMakefile: don't fail if there is no .tarball-version

[Jim Meyering]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 'make dist' gets into a infloop in gnulib daily builds for me since
> there is no .tarball-version file.  This should fix it.  Ok to push?

Hi Simon,

Thanks for the report.
In daily builds of gnulib itself?  built how?

In normal practice, the .tarball-version file exists only
when the working directory is the result of unpacking a tarball.

Please tell me how to reproduce the failure you're seeing.

I've just tried with the coreutils-6.12 release tarball.
I removed the .tarball-version file, reran "make" and "make dist",
and both worked fine.

> 2008-06-02  Simon Josefsson  <address@hidden>
>
>       * top/GNUmakefile: Don't infloop if .tarball-version doesn't exist.