maint: remove obsolete sc_author_mark_check rule

* maint.mk (sc_author_mark_check): Remove rule.
"and" no longer appears in the definition of AUTHORS.

diff --git a/maint.mk b/maint.mk
index 656155a..e12c7aa 100644 (file)
--- a/maint.mk
+++ b/maint.mk
@@ -526,14 +526,6 @@ sc_po_check:
          rm -f $@-1 $@-2;                                              \
        fi
 
-# In a definition of #define AUTHORS "... and ..." where the RHS contains
-# the English word `and', the string must be marked with `N_ (...)' so that
-# gettext recognizes it as a string requiring translation.
-sc_author_mark_check:
-       @grep -n '^# *define AUTHORS "[^"]* and ' src/*.c |grep -v ' N_ (' && \
-         { echo '$(ME): enclose the above strings in N_ (...)' 1>&2; \
-           exit 1; } || :
-
 # Sometimes it is useful to change the PATH environment variable
 # in Makefiles.  When doing so, it's better not to use the Unix-centric
 # path separator of `:', but rather the automake-provided `@PATH_SEPARATOR@'.