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Re: Sync maintainer-makefile files
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Micah Cowan |
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Re: Sync maintainer-makefile files |
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Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:23:15 -0700 |
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Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> If we make maint.mk minimal, it would be excellent to make coreutils'
>> Makefile.maint do 'include maint.mk'. This was the idea all along.
>> I'll suggest patches for gnulib/coreutils to achieve this.
<snip>
> The second set of patches is against gnulib to remove most of the rules
> in coreutils, to avoid duplication. This removes some features from
> gnulib's maint.mk, but has anyone been using them heavily? If so, we
> can add them again by making small incremental patches against coreutils
> and gnulib.
>
> Thoughts?
Didn't you just remove the vast majority of targets from maint.mk?
There's barely anything left at all! Why bother having a maint.mk in the
first place then?
I have only just begun using it, but I find all of the following useful:
> -sc_cast_of_argument_to_free:
> -sc_cast_of_x_alloc_return_value:
> -sc_cast_of_alloca_return_value:
> -sc_space_tab:
^^ *especially* that one...
> -sc_changelog:
> -syntax-check: $(syntax-check-rules)
Throwing out several useful rules, which AFAICT make up almost the
entirety of maint.mk, just because coreutils already has them, is a bad
move, IMO.
- --
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer...
http://micah.cowan.name/
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- maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4, Steven M. Schweda, 2007/10/20
- Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4, Bruno Haible, 2007/10/20
- Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4, Simon Josefsson, 2007/10/22
- Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4, Bruno Haible, 2007/10/22
- Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4, Jim Meyering, 2007/10/22
- Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4, Simon Josefsson, 2007/10/22
- Sync maintainer-makefile files (was: Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4), Simon Josefsson, 2007/10/22
- Re: Sync maintainer-makefile files,
Micah Cowan <=
- Re: Sync maintainer-makefile files, Simon Josefsson, 2007/10/22
- Re: Sync maintainer-makefile files, Micah Cowan, 2007/10/22
- Re: Sync maintainer-makefile files, Simon Josefsson, 2007/10/23
- Re: Sync maintainer-makefile files, Jim Meyering, 2007/10/23
- Re: Sync maintainer-makefile files, Simon Josefsson, 2007/10/25
- Re: Sync maintainer-makefile files, Jim Meyering, 2007/10/25
Re: maint.mk v. gzip 1.2.4, Micah Cowan, 2007/10/22