Makefile: support absolute paths in BUILDDIR
diff --git a/bld/get-version b/bld/get-version
index a68b96b..3b082dc 100755
--- a/bld/get-version
+++ b/bld/get-version
@@ -9,21 +9,18 @@
# If we can find one which matches $v[0-9].* then we assume it's
# a version-number tag, else we just use the whole string.
-# we're called with pwd == TLD
-cd ..
-
-if which git >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -d .git ]; then
- git describe
-elif grep '\$Format:%d\$' VERSION >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+if which git >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -d $1/.git ]; then
+ cd $1; git describe
+elif grep '\$Format:%d\$' $1/VERSION >/dev/null 2>&1; then
# unsubstituted VERSION, but no git available.
echo UNKNOWN
else
- vers=`cat VERSION | sed 's/[(), ]/,/ g' | tr ',' '\n' | grep $v[0-9]`
+ vers=`cat $1/VERSION | sed 's/[(), ]/,/ g' | tr ',' '\n' | grep $v[0-9]`
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "${vers}" | head -n 1 | tail -c +2
else
- cat VERSION
+ cat $1/VERSION
fi
fi