From 9ecc3fc82134dcc8b5ced17af8e46599c5ea5635 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:27:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] maintainer-makefile: allow customization of NEWS entry format
* top/maint.mk (news-date-regexp): New overridable variable.
(news-date-check): Use it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
---
ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
top/maint.mk | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 48e102661f..bba40edf96 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2009-12-04 Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org>
+
+ maintainer-makefile: allow customization of NEWS entry format
+ * top/maint.mk (news-date-regexp): New overridable variable.
+ (news-date-check): Use it.
+
2009-12-04 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
mgetgroups: add xgetgroups, and avoid ENOSYS failures
diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index c3fab9ac31..a7e31f0946 100644
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ else
url_dir_list ?= ftp://$(gnu_rel_host)/gnu/$(PACKAGE)
endif
+# Override this in cfg.mk if you are using a different format in your
+# NEWS file.
+news-date-regexp ?= '^\*.* $(VERSION_REGEXP) ('$$today')'
+
# Prevent programs like 'sort' from considering distinct strings to be equal.
# Doing it here saves us from having to set LC_ALL elsewhere in this file.
export LC_ALL = C
@@ -570,7 +574,7 @@ sc_makefile_check:
news-date-check: NEWS
today=`date +%Y-%m-%d`; \
- if head $(srcdir)/NEWS | grep '^\*.* $(VERSION_REGEXP) ('$$today')' \
+ if head $(srcdir)/NEWS | grep $(news-date-regexp) \
>/dev/null; then \
:; \
else \
--
2.30.2