From 0e2d0cde5fea48168faf3b4ce1f6d3fff18889ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 16:50:47 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] skip RELEASE_TOPS

---
 configure/CONFIG | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/configure/CONFIG b/configure/CONFIG
index e40d3f5f7..153e69e8c 100644
--- a/configure/CONFIG
+++ b/configure/CONFIG
@@ -58,8 +58,12 @@ include $(CONFIG)/CONFIG_BASE_VERSION
 include $(CONFIG)/os/CONFIG.$(EPICS_HOST_ARCH).Common
 -include $(CONFIG)/os/CONFIG_SITE.$(EPICS_HOST_ARCH).Common
 
+# Parse configure/RELEASE
+# except when building Base itself, where this file is empty,
+# and would error in src/tools/ anyway.
+ifndef BASE_TOP
 RELEASE_TOPS := $(shell $(CONVERTRELEASE) -T $(TOP) releaseTops)
-
+endif
 
 ifdef T_A