[Spice-devel] [00/17] Misc code style cleanups & adding 'syntax-check' make rule

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 03:58:21PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> In libvirt we use GNULIB, which provides a useful extra make rule
> 'syntax-check' for validating all sorts of common code style bugs.
> This keeps the code looking sane & detects certain real bugs and/or
> redundant coding patterns. Although SPICE doesn't use GNULIB it is
> trivial to copy the make rules into other projects.
> 
> This patch series cleans up 15 different types of flaw, and then
> finally adds the syntax-check rules. Just type 'make syntax-check'
> to run it. The idea is that any patch submitter should run a
> syntax-check on the code before submission, and ideally any
> automated builds should run it too.
> 
> It is possible to add project specific syntax checks by editing
> the cfg.mk file at will.
> 
> I have enabled the most commonly useful checks, but there are others
> that might be useful to SPICE, which I leave as an exercise for other
> motivated people. There should be no functional change from this
> patch series.

FYI I have pushed this series to the 'syntax-check' branch here:

  git://gitorious.org/~berrange/virt-tools/berrange-spice.git

to make it easier to test/merge as desired

Daniel
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