Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org> wrote:
Makefile.maint assumes this in some places. This doesn't make the world perfect but maybe a bit better?
Um, not really, since a pathological $(abs_srcdir) may contain "; rm -rf /;" Best to avoid it and use $(srcdir) instead. Were you able to construct a situation in which this change helped? I wonder, since in a non-srcdir builds, GNUmakefile and Makefile.maint don't exist, so it should be impossible to run their rules without either copying them into the build directory or using make's -f option. [copying the files into place, to test this ...] It looks like if you use VC_LIST's -C option, then that invalidates the exempted names in the .x-sc* files. FWIW, I did "make distclean && mkdir .j && cd .j && ./configure".
From there, none of the Makefile.maint rules are available.
Eventually, I'll probably sync from coreutils/gnulib, where this file is now named maint.mk.