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Re: Exception to space-tab rule


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Exception to space-tab rule
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:43:15 -0600
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On 03/14/2011 08:23 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> However, I find that adding a whole new .x-sc_* file
> just to exempt an exceptional source file from one of the
> many syntax checks is a disproportionate burden.
> It has always bothered me to do that.
> 
> So finally, here's a proposed maint.mk patch to implement a better way,
> followed by the change induced in coreutils where I remove its 24
> .x-sc_* files, replacing them with just 30 lines at the end of cfg.mk:

I _love_ it!  Let's get those naming issues resolved, since using cfg.mk
for this instead of lots of new little files is very nice.

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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