[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 311777] New: [build] check for "endianness" vs. "endianess"

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 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311777
 GStreamer | gst-plugins-base | Ver: HEAD CVS

           Summary: [build] check for "endianness" vs. "endianess"
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: HEAD CVS
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins-base
        AssignedTo: wingo at pobox.com
        ReportedBy: t.i.m at zen.co.uk
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
                CC: all-bugs at bugzilla.gnome.org


I just spent 2 hours tracking down a bug due to the fact that some caps used a
field named "endianess" while it should be "endianness" with two 'n'.

Grepping through gst-plugins-0.8 I found the same mistake in ximagesrc.

I think it's worth adding a hook to 'make check' or 'make dist-check' in both
gst-plugins and gst-plugins-base that checks whether any of our .c files
contains the wrong string 'endianess', just to prevent anyone else from making
this mistake.

Shouldn't take more than a 

   $(EGREP) endianess `find $(top_srcdir) -name '*.c'`

with the right return value magic in Makefile.am (can't figure out the right
syntax though).

 Cheers
  -Tim

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