From: Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 04:27:40 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: maintainer-makefile: allow customization of NEWS entry format
X-Git-Tag: v0.1~5104
X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.org.uk/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9ecc3fc82134dcc8b5ced17af8e46599c5ea5635;p=gnulib.git

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>
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 48e102661..bba40edf9 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 c3fab9ac3..a7e31f094 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								\