commit dce7593cabc1702969ce5b78b0be7bc393374584
author Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Tue Apr 30 23:52:12 2013 +0000
committer Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Tue Apr 30 23:52:12 2013 +0000
tree 1f0ba62bd809ccb629324f2f747949bc8fa01ea7
parent 7ae73a91e910f8f68a401d88bcc1d10ec28526c3

build: introduce git-version-gen

* .gitignore: Add .version.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST, BUILT_SOURCES): Add $(srcdir)/.version.
Add rules to check NEWS, generate $(srcdir)/.version and
$(distdir)/.tarball-version files.
Change ChangeLog and CREDITS generation rules to depend on
$(srcdir)/.version instead of $(srcdir)/.git/refs/heads/*.
* NEWS: Add dates to recent releases.
* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Use git-version-gen.
(AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Remove check-news.
* git-version-gen: Import from gnulib.
* make-dist: Check NEWS.