Re: Sync maintainer-makefile files

[Micah Cowan]

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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.

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> 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.

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Micah J. Cowan
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http://micah.cowan.name/

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