bug#5925: [PATCH] tests: more syntax-checks

[Jim Meyering]

FYI,

>From 0ba945b0506acb27feb351771c3828786809df6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:43:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tests: more syntax-checks

* gnulib: update to latest
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_empty_lines_at_EOF): Remove, now that it's
in gnulib's maint.mk.
(_hv_file): Override the default.
---
 cfg.mk |   27 +++------------------------
 gnulib |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index dfc3b86..7533930 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ old_NEWS_hash = 9518f4930d702a9fa6ac6b9fd06cca94
 # Add an exemption for sc_makefile_at_at_check.
 _makefile_at_at_check_exceptions = ' && !/^cu_install_program =/'

+# Our help-version script is in a slightly different location.
+_hv_file ?= $(srcdir)/tests/misc/help-version
+
 # Ensure that the list of O_ symbols used to compute O_FULLBLOCK is complete.
 dd = $(srcdir)/src/dd.c
 sc_dd_O_FLAGS:
@@ -315,30 +318,6 @@ sc_space_before_open_paren:
        else :;                                                         \
        fi

-# The following tail+perl pipeline would be much more concise, and would
-# produce slightly better output (including counts) if written as
-#   perl -ln -0777 -e '/\n(\n+)$/ and print "$ARGV: ".length $1' ...
-# but that would be far less efficient, reading the entire contents
-# of each file, rather than just the last few bytes of each.
-#
-# This is a perl script that operates on the output of
-# tail -n1 TWO_OR_MORE_FILES
-# Print the name of each file that ends in two or more newline bytes.
-# Exit nonzero if at least one such file is found, otherwise, exit 0.
-#
-# Use this if you want to remove trailing empty lines from selected files:
-#   perl -pi -0777 -e 's/\n\n+$/\n/' files...
-#
-detect_empty_lines_at_EOF_ =                                           \
-  /^==> ([^\n]+) <==\n\n/m and (print "$$1\n"), $$fail = 1;            \
-  END { exit defined $$fail }
-
-sc_prohibit_empty_lines_at_EOF:
-       @tail -n1 $$($(VC_LIST_EXCEPT)) /dev/null                       \
-           | perl -00 -ne '$(detect_empty_lines_at_EOF_)'              \
-         || { echo '$(ME): the above files end with empty line(s)'     \
-               1>&2; exit 1; } || :;                                   \
-
 include $(srcdir)/dist-check.mk

 update-copyright-env = \
diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib
index bfbf5db..8df7efd 160000
--- a/gnulib
+++ b/gnulib
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit bfbf5dbc5ec0aa90ee2ac3c48f3708de1f428178
+Subproject commit 8df7efddc8ffe398cde4106d32b39848e5948df9
--
1.7.1.rc0.264.g94f6e