From 8fb15aed17122b4b2f4c8c13ed9b7ce0d9119ede Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 10:26:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Do a sanity-check to make sure we pick up a release date.

---
 configure    | 6 ++++++
 configure.in | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 2d9a88be..909abfe6 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3997,6 +3997,12 @@ fi
 
 RELEASE_DATE=`grep '[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]' docs/WHATSNEW  | head -n 1 | awk '{print $NF}'`
 
+# Sanity-check release date
+echo "$RELEASE_DATE" | grep '^....-..-..$' > /dev/null 2>&1
+if test "$?" != 0 ; then
+    echo "*** COULD NOT DETERMINE RELEASE DATE: docs/WHATSNEW is incorrect!"
+    exit 1
+fi
 for ac_func in setenv unsetenv glob mbstowcs setlocale initgroups
 do :
   as_ac_var=`$as_echo "ac_cv_func_$ac_func" | $as_tr_sh`
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 265b4631..703d3c9f 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -66,6 +66,12 @@ fi
 
 RELEASE_DATE=`grep '[[0-9]][[0-9]][[0-9]][[0-9]]-[[0-9]][[0-9]]-[[0-9]][[0-9]]' docs/WHATSNEW  | head -n 1 | awk '{print $NF}'`
 
+# Sanity-check release date
+echo "$RELEASE_DATE" | grep '^....-..-..$' > /dev/null 2>&1
+if test "$?" != 0 ; then
+    echo "*** COULD NOT DETERMINE RELEASE DATE: docs/WHATSNEW is incorrect!"
+    exit 1
+fi
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(setenv unsetenv glob mbstowcs setlocale initgroups)
 VERSION=04.00.03
 AC_SUBST(VERSION)