Re: [PATCH] Don't infloop upon "make dist".

[Jim Meyering]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> The patch is ok with this change:  The _curr-ver computation needs to be
>
>     _curr-ver := $(shell cd $(srcdir) && ./build-aux/git-version-gen \
>                    .tarball-version)
>
> because otherwise it won't work with a VPATH build.

Good catch.
However, a slight correction:

    ... otherwise it won't work with an *out-of-tree* VPATH build.

I did test, of course, just not with an out-of-tree build dir.
As is, it works fine for an in-tree VPATH build.