maint.mk: backslash-escape parens in default regexp

* top/maint.mk (news-check-regexp): Now that we're using grep -E,
backslash-escape the literal parentheses.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d7025c3835a8e2bad74e56f31b9b55d7273ae915..ddf52040560b669099227c95891d9d5633dc3220 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2009-12-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
 
+       maint.mk: backslash-escape parens in default regexp
+       * top/maint.mk (news-check-regexp): Now that we're using grep -E,
+       backslash-escape the literal parentheses.
+
        maint.mk: news-date-check: use grep -E
        * top/maint.mk (today): Define a Make variable, not a...
        (news-date-check): ...shell variable.

diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index 596da386d925100171153563620c765cfc225fad..1ed15413cd6833b99cd0d5dfac56142950d80842 100644 (file)
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ endif
 # Override this in cfg.mk if you are using a different format in your
 # NEWS file.
 today = $(shell date +%Y-%m-%d)
-news-check-regexp ?= '^\*.* $(VERSION_REGEXP) ($(today))'
+news-check-regexp ?= '^\*.* $(VERSION_REGEXP) \($(today)\)'
 
 # Prevent programs like 'sort' from considering distinct strings to be equal.
 # Doing it here saves us from having to set LC_ALL elsewhere in this file.