AS_INIT: basename __file__

Fix AS_INIT to encode the basename of __file__
instead of the full path to the source directory.
Allows for reproducible builds.

diff --git a/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 b/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
index af2868572d2a699f741eaa25d75cc79479a67f73..c9e862469cf376dcce9a464a0506c5973b9458b6 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
+++ b/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
@@ -2139,9 +2139,11 @@ m4_provide([AS_INIT])
 m4_pattern_forbid([^_?AS_])
 
 # Bangshe and minimal initialization.
+# Put only the basename of __file__ into HEADER-COMMENT, so that the
+# path to the source directory is not embedded in the output file.
 m4_divert_text([BINSH], [@%:@! /bin/sh])
 m4_divert_text([HEADER-COMMENT],
-              [@%:@ Generated from __file__ by m4_PACKAGE_STRING.])
+              [@%:@ Generated from m4_bpatsubst(__file__,[^.*/\([^/]*\)$],[[\1]]) by m4_PACKAGE_STRING.])
 m4_divert_text([M4SH-SANITIZE], [_AS_SHELL_SANITIZE])
 m4_divert_text([M4SH-INIT-FN], [m4_text_box([M4sh Shell Functions.])])
 

diff --git a/tests/m4sh.at b/tests/m4sh.at
index 9fd84558b9dd4672daf3392765cc75170f0abc6e..a18277ac8ef27277a803469824e5b55b434908c1 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/m4sh.at
+++ b/tests/m4sh.at
@@ -1868,6 +1868,25 @@ cleanup 1
 AT_CLEANUP
 
 
+## -------------------------- ##
+## AS_INIT basename __file__. ##
+## -------------------------- ##
+
+AT_SETUP([AS@&t@_INIT basename __@&t@file__])
+AT_KEYWORDS([m4sh])
+
+AT_CHECK([mkdir sub || exit 77])
+AT_DATA_M4SH([sub/script.as], [[dnl
+AS_INIT
+]])
+AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE([--language=m4sh sub/script.as -o script])
+AT_CHECK([grep '^# Generated from' script], [0], [dnl
+# Generated from script.as by ]m4_PACKAGE_STRING[.
+])
+
+AT_CLEANUP
+
+
 ## ------------------- ##
 ## AS_INIT_GENERATED.  ##
 ## ------------------- ##