[Grep-devel] FYI: two small changes

[Jim Meyering]

I've pushed two small patches.

"make syntax-check" would fail. I fixed that with the latter.

A colleague mentioned that documentation said PCRE support
appeared to be experimental, so I've clarified that in the former.

>From 9c816dbbff9f29eded52864545f1e34019708561 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:43:13 +1300
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] doc: clarify that PCRE support is here to stay

* doc/grep.texi (grep Programs): Clarify: it's not PCRE support
that is experimental, but its combination with --null-data (-z).
---
 doc/grep.texi | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/grep.texi b/doc/grep.texi
index 31116cd..922d96e 100644
--- a/doc/grep.texi
+++ b/doc/grep.texi
@@ -1131,8 +1131,8 @@ expressions), separated by newlines, any of which is to 
be matched.
 @opindex --perl-regexp
 @cindex matching Perl-compatible regular expressions
 Interpret the pattern as a Perl-compatible regular expression (PCRE).
-This is experimental, particularly when combined with
-the @option{-z} (@option{--null-data}) option, and
+PCRE support is here to stay, but consider this option experimental when
+combined with the @option{-z} (@option{--null-data}) option, and note that
 @samp{grep@ -P} may warn of unimplemented features.
 @xref{Other Options}.

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2.13.5


>From 5b4a1ffebe0f032dca7aa4ccf9673a55b0c04db0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 14:39:03 +1200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] maint: avoid new syntax-check failure

* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update, to accommodate v3.1-20-g63d4174's
typo fix.
---
 cfg.mk | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index aa49b79..6af93f1 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ export VERBOSE = yes
 # 1127556 9e
 export XZ_OPT = -6e

-old_NEWS_hash = 51c3b77c72f53965e784cb4a8074842c
+old_NEWS_hash = 45dd6d1e422e22cd3d94c87dd5747534

 # Many m4 macros names once began with 'jm_'.
 # Make sure that none are inadvertently reintroduced.
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2.13.5