bug-gnulib
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: a ChangeLog typo and two sc_tight_scope fixes


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: a ChangeLog typo and two sc_tight_scope fixes
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 22:36:59 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0

On 18/10/15 22:33, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 18/10/15 05:04, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> I've just pushed the following three patches:
> 
> Nice. Note this improvement triggered new
> syntax check failures on coreutils
> 
>   $ make sc_tight_scope
>   prog_fprintf
>   rm
>   defaultcon
>   restorecon
>   ...
> 
> That's because the gnulib rule was working on an
> invalid blank regular expression extracted from SOURCES,
> thus effectively being ignored, as it was matching all
> extern functions found with nm. with your added ^_?$
> around the expression, this no longer happened, thus
> triggering the above valid issues.
> 
> I've sent a patch to coreutils to fix those,
> and the attached gnulib patch is not strictly required
> after your improvements, though it does remove some
> extraneous unlikely to match expressions.

correct patch attached this time

Attachment: tight_scope-extra-matches.patch
Description: Text Data


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]