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 <jtomko@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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
