[libvirt] [PATCH] build: exclude more files from all the syntax checks

[Michal Privoznik]

On 10/05/2017 01:07 PM, Pino Toscano wrote:
> The majority of the syntax check is taylored for C sources, so some of
> the checks already cause false positives for non-C sources (and thus
> there are exclusion regexps in place).
> 
> Instead, just exclude more non-C files from all the checks:
> - pot files: they are templates for po files (already excluded), and
>   they are automatically generated from sources
> - pl files: Perl sources, which have own APIs, style, etc; they are
>   helper scripts, not "real" sources
> - spec/spec.in files: RPM packaging files
> - js/woff/html.in files: files for web pages
> - diff/patch files: patches
> - stp files: SystemTap scripts
> - syms files: linker symbols files
> - conf files: generic configuration files
> - data/cpuinfo files: procinfo/cpuinfo files
> 
> Python files (.py) are left allowed, since there is at least one syntax
> check specifically for them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pino Toscano <ptoscano at redhat.com>
> ---
>  cfg.mk | 29 +++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
> index 0f4065b98..44a19594e 100644
> --- a/cfg.mk
> +++ b/cfg.mk
> @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ endif
>  
>  # Files that should never cause syntax check failures.
>  VC_LIST_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE_REGEX = \
> -  (^(docs/(news(-[0-9]*)?\.html\.in|.*\.patch))|\.(po|fig|gif|ico|png))$$
> +  \.(po|fig|gif|ico|png|pot|pl|spec|spec\.in|js|woff|diff|patch|html\.in|stp|syms|conf|data|cpuinfo)$$

.spec is not in the repo, so it's never checked. And then, we perhaps
want to check .spec.in? For instance for space at EOF.

ACK if you leave those two out from the list.

Michal