Issue #21383: Allow "make touch" to work when building outside of the

source directory.

diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
index a70119afb960c67867ad6ad749c56b9ba584e04a..bcd83bf1fe4e3f152f6aca6e815f79087ab9f56b 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.pre.in
+++ b/Makefile.pre.in
@@ -1267,6 +1267,7 @@ TAGS::
 
 # Touch generated files
 touch:
+       cd $(srcdir); \
        touch Include/Python-ast.h Python/Python-ast.c
 
 # Sanitation targets -- clean leaves libraries, executables and tags