[coreutils] [PATCH] tests: improve the always_defined_macros check

[Jim Meyering]

FYI,

>From cab21195422804046a7f2b18de2282a46a2e8f39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 12:08:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tests: improve the always_defined_macros check

* cfg.mk (sc_always_defined_macros): Adjust its helpers not to depend
on the existence of ./lib.  Instead, extract symbols directly from
gnulib/lib/*.in.h files.
---
 cfg.mk |   30 ++++++++++++++----------------
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 9eb1c9e..6153f53 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -106,32 +106,29 @@ sc_x_sc_dist_check:
                   ) | sort | uniq -u)"                                 \
          && { echo 'Makefile.am: $(sce) mismatch' >&2; exit 1; } || :;

-gl_generated_headers_ = \
-  $$(cd $(gnulib_dir)/lib && echo *.in.h|sed 's,sys_,sys/,g;s/\.in\.h/.h/g')
-
-headers_with_interesting_macro_defs = \
-  exit.h       \
+# ==================================================================
+gl_other_headers_ ?= \
   intprops.h   \
-  lchown.h     \
   openat.h     \
   stat-macros.h

+# Perl -lne code to extract "significant" cpp-defined symbols from a
+# gnulib header file, eliminating a few common false-positives.
 gl_extract_significant_defines_ = \
-  /^\# *define ([^_ (][^ (]*)\s*(\(|\w+)/ && $$2 !~ /(?:rpl_|_used_without_)/ \
+  /^\# *define ([^_ (][^ (]*)(\s*\(|\s+\w+)/ && $$2 !~ 
/(?:rpl_|_used_without_)/\
     and print $$1

 # Create a list of regular expressions matching the names
-# of macros that are guaranteed by parts of gnulib to be defined.
+# of macros that are guaranteed to be defined by parts of gnulib.
 .re-defmac:
        @gen_h=$(gl_generated_headers_);                                \
-       (cd $(srcdir)/lib;                                              \
-         for f in $(headers_with_interesting_macro_defs) $$gen_h; do   \
-           test -f $$f &&                                              \
-             perl -lne '$(gl_extract_significant_defines_)' $$f;       \
-          done;                                                        \
-        ) | sort -u                                                    \
-          | grep -Ev 'ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN|SIZE_MAX'                     \
-          | sed 's/^/^# *define /'                                     \
+       (cd $(gnulib_dir)/lib;                                          \
+         for f in *.in.h $(gl_other_headers_); do                      \
+           perl -lne '$(gl_extract_significant_defines_)' $$f;         \
+         done;                                                         \
+       ) | sort -u                                                     \
+         | grep -Ev '^ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN'                              \
+         | sed 's/^/^# *define /'                                      \
          > $@-t
        @mv $@-t $@

@@ -151,6 +148,7 @@ sc_always_defined_macros: .re-defmac
            && { echo '$(ME): define the above via some gnulib .h file' \
                  1>&2;  exit 1; } || :;                                \
        fi
+# ==================================================================

 # Create a list of regular expressions matching the names
 # of files included from system.h.  Exclude a couple.
--
1.7.1.166.gf2086