Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:
> > But I'm not fluent enough with sed to
> > quickly write a script that can sanitize both styles into a single
recognizable
> > line:
> >
>
> This should do it
>
> perl -0777 -pe 's/^Copyright.+?Free\sSoftware\sFoundation,\sInc\.//ms'
Indeed - once we realize that maint.mk implies the presence of perl (the
implication is indirect: use of maint.mk rules implies that a maintainer is
doing something, but being a maintainer implies the presence of autoconf which
implies perl), it is much easier to ditch sed and grep altogether.
> NEWS_hash = \
> $$(sed -n '/^\*.* $(PREV_VERSION_REGEXP) ([0-9-]*)/,$$p' \
> $(srcdir)/NEWS
\
> - | grep -v '^Copyright .*Free Software' \
> + | perl -0777 -pe
\
> + 's/^Copyright.+?Free\sSoftware\sFoundation,\sInc\.//ms' \
Is it worth trying to merge the sed and grep into a single process?
> Then I realized that the patch above would probably be enough.
> The GFDL version number will not be changing often.
Fair enough. So, do we apply your patch, or should I try testing/tweaking it
further?
--
Eric Blake
