From 75dd0bd8bc045493550841d540992049458b81c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 01:15:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] * maintMakefile: Fix logging of check-alt-config target.

---
 maintMakefile | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/maintMakefile b/maintMakefile
index f7bdf002..0720669a 100644
--- a/maintMakefile
+++ b/maintMakefile
@@ -230,11 +230,14 @@ check-alt-config: \
 	checkcfg.CPPFLAGS^-DNO_OUTPUT_SYNC \
 	checkcfg.CPPFLAGS^-DNO_ARCHIVES
 
+# Trick GNU make so it doesn't run the submake as a recursive make.
 NR_MAKE = $(MAKE)
 
 # Check builds both with build.sh and with make
 checkcfg.%: distdir
-	@( rm -rf $(distdir)/_build \
+	@echo "Building $@ (output in checkcfg.$*.log)"
+	@exec >'checkcfg.$*.log' 2>&1; \
+	   rm -rf $(distdir)/_build \
 	&& mkdir $(distdir)/_build \
 	&& cd $(distdir)/_build \
 	&& echo "Testing configure with $(subst ^,=,$*)" \
@@ -245,7 +248,7 @@ checkcfg.%: distdir
 	&& ./make $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check \
 	&& rm -f *.o make \
 	&& $(NR_MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) \
-	&& ./make $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check ) 2>&1 | tee checkcfg.$*.log
+	&& ./make $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check
 
 
 ## --------------- ##
@@ -382,6 +385,9 @@ $(UPLOADS): $(DIST_ARCHIVES) $(DIST_ARCHIVES_SIG) $(DIST_ARCHIVES_DIRECTIVE)
 	$(FTPPUT) "$(gnu-upload-host)" "$(gnu-upload-dir)/$(@:upload-%=%)" $^
 
 
+# Rebuild Makefile.in if this file is modifed.
+Makefile.in: maintMakefile
+
 # Copyright (C) 1997-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 # This file is part of GNU Make.
 #