build: Ensure that autogen.sh works when builddir != srcdir

We need to switch directories, because the tools that modify the build
system files, sadly, need to operate in the srcdir.

This change is required in order to cope with the jhbuild change of
default to enable separate build directories.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index f14e8269..49329813 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -4,11 +4,15 @@
 srcdir=`dirname $0`
 test -z "$srcdir" && srcdir=.
 
+olddir=`pwd`
+
 (test -f $srcdir/configure.ac) || {
         echo "**Error**: Directory "\`$srcdir\'" does not look like the top-level project directory"
         exit 1
 }
 
+cd "$srcdir"
+
 PKG_NAME=`autoconf --trace "AC_INIT:$1" "$srcdir/configure.ac"`
 
 if [ "$#" = 0 -a "x$NOCONFIGURE" = "x" ]; then
@@ -32,6 +36,8 @@ gtkdocize --copy || exit 1
 intltoolize --force --copy --automake || exit 1
 autoreconf --verbose --force --install -Wno-portability || exit 1
 
+cd "$olddir"
+
 if [ "$NOCONFIGURE" = "" ]; then
         $srcdir/configure "$@" || exit 1