From b7f540b814a32e372753ce6fced81b0991dc07b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:47:14 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] automate updating of VERSION file

---
 Makefile | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f52c82c..3880713 100755
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # © 2008-2010 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
 # Licensed under GPL v3 or later
 
-MONKEYSPHERE_VERSION = `head -n1 Changelog | sed 's/.*(\([^-]*\)).*/\1/'`
+MONKEYSPHERE_VERSION:=$(shell head -n1 Changelog | sed 's/.*(\([^-]*\)).*/\1/')
 
 # these defaults are for debian.  porters should probably adjust them
 # before calling make install
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ tarball: clean
 	tar -ch --exclude='*~' monkeysphere-$(MONKEYSPHERE_VERSION) | gzip -n > monkeysphere_$(MONKEYSPHERE_VERSION).orig.tar.gz
 	rm -rf monkeysphere-$(MONKEYSPHERE_VERSION)
 
+VERSION: Changelog
+	sed 's/^Monkeysphere .*$$/Monkeysphere '$(MONKEYSPHERE_VERSION)'/' -i VERSION
+
 debian-package:
 	git buildpackage -uc -us --git-upstream-branch=master --git-debian-branch=debian --git-no-pristine-tar --git-ignore-new
 
-- 
2.26.2