announce-gen doesn't like Bison's NEWS format. The following patch fixes
it. Or should we consider reformatting Bison's NEWS file? Thanks.
>From f289ed88ea6513e18709b6b65ea3875bbd375998 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel E. Denny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 17:58:01 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Accept Bison's NEWS format.
* build-aux/announce-gen (print_news_deltas): Here.
diff --git a/build-aux/announce-gen b/build-aux/announce-gen
index 6775665..fc852d1 100755
--- a/build-aux/announce-gen
+++ b/build-aux/announce-gen
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ sub print_news_deltas ($$$)
# the first occurrence of $prev_version.
my $in_items;
- my $re_prefix = qr/\* (?:Noteworthy|Major) change/;
+ my $re_prefix = qr/\* (?:Noteworthy|Major) change|Changes/;
open NEWS, '<', $news_file
or die "$ME: $news_file: cannot open for reading: $!\n";
@@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ sub print_news_deltas ($$$)
# Match lines like these:
# * Major changes in release 5.0.1:
# * Noteworthy changes in release 6.6 (2006-11-22) [stable]
+ # Changes in version 2.4 (2008-11-02):
$line =~ /^$re_prefix.*(?:[^\d.]|$)\Q$curr_version\E(?:[^\d.]|$)/o
or next;
$in_items = 1;
--
1.5.4.3
