Re: GNU Coding Standard Enforcement

[Vivien Kraus]

Le mercredi 08 avril 2020 à 16:21 -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt a écrit :
> I suggest you look at "make syntax-check" in say GNU coreutils.  It
> has a lot of nice syntactical checks for different constructs that
> are
> preferable in GNU projects.  E.g, checking that you don't do
> assignments in if statements, and what not.
It seems that it comes from the maintainer-makefile gnulib module. 
This is very interesting, thank you.

> For copyright notice munging, I suggest GNU Emacs and using
> copyright-update.
This is exactly what I was looking for, and it was right there, in the
emacs manual!  I guess I will never finish learning emacs...

Thank you for these two very useful pointers!

So, to link back to the original question: the maintainer-makefile
gnulib module provides a Makefile that will enforce a number of
additional checks by calling "make syntax-check".  An example of use
for this module is demonstrated in the coreutils package.

Vivien