From aa9a8d23035a87bec572def081511549620a0549 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:31:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Make "gnulib-tool --version" work from any directory.

---
 ChangeLog   | 5 +++++
 gnulib-tool | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e393de131..0b7e5b7dc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2008-09-26  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
+	* gnulib-tool (func_version): Change directory to $gnulib_dir before
+	invoking git-version-gen.
+
+2008-09-26  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
 	* posix-modules: Update to directory names changed on 2008-01-19.
 	Remove commas in output before splitting into words. No more need to
 	avoid 'ftruncate' since 2007-02-19.
diff --git a/gnulib-tool b/gnulib-tool
index 977587caa..56b185a38 100755
--- a/gnulib-tool
+++ b/gnulib-tool
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ q
     date=`echo "$date" | sed -e "$sed_year_before_time"`
     # Use GNU date to compute the time in GMT.
     date=`date -d "$date" -u +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"`
-    version=' '`"$gnulib_dir"/build-aux/git-version-gen /dev/null | sed -e 's/-dirty/-modified/'`
+    version=' '`cd "$gnulib_dir" && ./build-aux/git-version-gen /dev/null | sed -e 's/-dirty/-modified/'`
   else
     if test -d "$gnulib_dir"/CVS \
        && (cvs --version) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
-- 
2.11.0