[Libguestfs] [PATCH] maint.mk: remove error_message_period check

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:02:06AM +0000, Chen, Hanxiao wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard W.M. Jones [mailto:rjones at redhat.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 4:32 PM
> > To: Chen, Hanxiao/陈 晗霄
> > Cc: libguestfs at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] maint.mk: remove error_message_period check
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 01:18:45AM -0400, Chen Hanxiao wrote:
> > > As discussed at:
> > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-September/msg00215.html
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao at cn.fujitsu.com>
> > > ---
> > >  maint.mk | 7 -------
> > >  1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/maint.mk b/maint.mk
> > > index b6ec1b5..76759d4 100644
> > > --- a/maint.mk
> > > +++ b/maint.mk
> > > @@ -408,13 +408,6 @@ sc_error_message_uppercase:
> > >  	  { echo '$(ME): found capitalized error message' 1>&2;		\
> > >  	    exit 1; } || :
> > >
> > > -# Error messages should not end with a period
> > > -sc_error_message_period:
> > > -	@grep -nEA2 '[^rp]error *\(' $$($(VC_LIST_EXCEPT))		\
> > > -	    | grep -E '[^."]\."' &&					\
> > > -	  { echo '$(ME): found error message ending in period' 1>&2;	\
> > > -	    exit 1; } || :
> > > -
> > >  sc_file_system:
> > >  	@prohibit=file''system						\
> > >  	ignore_case=1							\
> > > --
> > > 2.1.0
> > 
> > It seems as if maint.mk is generated, although I have no idea where ...
> > 
> 
> Looks like gnulib did this.
> 
> Or we changed our error messages as gnulib's suggestion?

It looks as if cfg.mk generates maint.mk.

My preference is to get rid of 'make syntax-check' entirely.

Rich.

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