TMP dir, default to environment setting for TMP if set

diff --git a/cvstools/Release-targets.mk b/cvstools/Release-targets.mk
index 1602f2fbcf3bb90e97e15ad56e0755134410020a..65dd0387f5488bd65f0bcc561a32d755ccf340bb 100644 (file)
--- a/cvstools/Release-targets.mk
+++ b/cvstools/Release-targets.mk
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # this file is a -*- makefile -*- snippet
 # targets in the file are used only for release builds
 
+# $Id$
+
 RELEASE-NOTES.html: RELEASE-NOTES.xml
        $(XJPARSE) $<
        $(XSLT) $< $(DOC-LINK-STYLE) $@

diff --git a/cvstools/Release-vars.mk b/cvstools/Release-vars.mk
index 2a569b1716253f1f11b236c1573088981b33adec..76e7d54844381ac255c188a4e49b67015d898a28 100644 (file)
--- a/cvstools/Release-vars.mk
+++ b/cvstools/Release-vars.mk
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------
-#             MAKEFILE VARIABLES FOR RELEASE BUILDS
+#  -*- makefile -*- snippet with VARIABLES FOR RELEASE BUILDS
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------
 # If you are doing normal (non-release) sandbox builds just for
 # your own use, you can ignore all the variables below. They are
 # used only when doing release builds.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------
 
+# $Id$
+
 # stylesheet for generating release notes
 DOC-LINK-STYLE=$(DOCBOOK_CVS)/xsl/docsrc/doc-link-docbook.xsl
 
@@ -51,9 +53,13 @@ endif
 # remove dots from version number to create CVS tag
 TAGVER := $(shell echo "V$(RELVER)" | sed "s/\.//g")
 
-# to use a temp directory other than /tmp, run "make zip TMP=/foo"
-# or "make zip TMP=$TMP to override following setting
+# if TMP is already defined in the environment, build uses that as
+# location for temporary storage for files generated by "make
+# zip"; otherwise it defaults to /tmp. To use a temp directory
+# other than /tmp, run "make zip TMP=/foo" 
+ifeq ($(TMP),)
 TMP=/tmp
+endif
 
 # value of ZIP_EXCLUDES is a space-separated list of any file or
 # directory names (regular expressions OK) that should be excluded