From: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 13:59:14 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: bin/mdw-build: Delay official `assign' for `$toppath' and `$releasepath'.
X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~mdw/git/profile/commitdiff_plain/c3a2e2b16ef44f51ff9cb9e96230ec1b49ed2372

bin/mdw-build: Delay official `assign' for `$toppath' and `$releasepath'.

... until after we've established the logfile.  Otherwise it won't
capture these things.
---

diff --git a/bin/mdw-build b/bin/mdw-build
index 10557a8..fb98ffa 100755
--- a/bin/mdw-build
+++ b/bin/mdw-build
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ while [ ! -f configure.ac -a ! -f configure.in -a \
   esac
   cd ..
 done
-assign toppath $(pwd)
+toppath=$(pwd)
 
 ## Build any necessary qualifiers.
 qual= sep=.
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ case ${SBOX_SESSION_DIR+t},${DEB_BUILD_ARCH+t} in
 esac
 
 ## Construct the output directory.
-assign releasepath $toppath/dist-$build$qual
+releasepath=$toppath/dist-$build$qual
 chmod -R +w $releasepath 2>/dev/null || :
 rm -rf $releasepath 2>/dev/null || :
 mkdir $releasepath
@@ -275,6 +275,10 @@ case $verbose in
     ;;
 esac
 
+## Repeat the earlier assignments for tbe benefit of the logfile.
+assign toppath $toppath
+assign releasepath $releasepath
+
 ## Do we have a Git repository?
 case "$checkout,$setup,$(yesno [ -d $toppath/.git ])" in
   yes,no,*)