[PATCH] maint.mk: backslash-escape parens in default regexp

[Jim Meyering]

Just pushed:

>From 208edc200d8bd7f9ce63cd348445b21fdbf58984 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 10:02:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] 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.
---
 ChangeLog    |    4 ++++
 top/maint.mk |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d7025c3..ddf5204 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2009-12-05  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

+       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 596da38..1ed1541 100644
--- 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.
--
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