NEWS was replaced by docs/news.html, so the pre-requisite for this rule is not fulfilled.
Also, PREV_VERSION_REGEXP does not seem to be defined anywhere. Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jto...@redhat.com> --- build-aux/syntax-check.mk | 14 -------------- 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/build-aux/syntax-check.mk b/build-aux/syntax-check.mk index 23d2bf8b34..2c1ec877b1 100644 --- a/build-aux/syntax-check.mk +++ b/build-aux/syntax-check.mk @@ -1795,20 +1795,6 @@ sc_const_long_option: halt='add "const" to the above declarations' \ $(_sc_search_regexp) -NEWS_hash = \ - $$($(SED) -n '/^\*.* $(PREV_VERSION_REGEXP) ([0-9-]*)/,$$p' \ - $(srcdir)/NEWS \ - | perl -0777 -pe \ - 's/^Copyright.+?Free\sSoftware\sFoundation,\sInc\.\n//ms' \ - | md5sum - \ - | $(SED) 's/ .*//') - -# Update the hash stored above. Do this after each release and -# for any corrections to old entries. -update-NEWS-hash: NEWS - perl -pi -e 's/^(old_NEWS_hash[ \t]+:?=[ \t]+).*/$${1}'"$(NEWS_hash)/" \ - $(srcdir)/syntax-check.mk - # Ensure that we use only the standard $(VAR) notation, # not @...@ in Makefile.am, now that we can rely on automake # to emit a definition for each substituted variable. -- 2.24.1