[PATCH 4/4] maint.mk: exempt trailing blanks found in "binary" files

[Jim Meyering]

From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>

* top/maint.mk (sc_trailing_blank): Filter out any matches found in
"binary" files, as reported by grep.  Suggested by Richard W.M. Jones
in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.guestfs/1902
---
 ChangeLog    | 7 +++++++
 top/maint.mk | 1 +
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index eeea310..38ad080 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2012-09-18  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>
+
+       maint.mk: exempt trailing blanks found in "binary" files
+       * top/maint.mk (sc_trailing_blank): Filter out any matches found in
+       "binary" files, as reported by grep.  Suggested by Richard W.M. Jones
+       in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.guestfs/1902
+
 2012-09-17  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        maint.mk: sc_prohibit_path_max_allocation: don't FP for UNIX_PATH_MAX
diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index f77d0c1..ccf09a2 100644
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -724,6 +724,7 @@ sc_require_test_exit_idiom:
 sc_trailing_blank:
        @prohibit='[     ]$$'                                           \
        halt='found trailing blank(s)'                                  \
+       exclude='^Binary file .* matches$$'                             \
          $(_sc_search_regexp)

 # Match lines like the following, but where there is only one space
-- 
1.7.12.503.g5976753