changeset 12385:ad3ca6ce84b0

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.
author Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
date Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:02:01 +0100
parents 8620ff59758a
children 8fd02a53bfe5
files ChangeLog top/maint.mk
diffstat 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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.
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
 # 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.