"Roger A. Faulkner" wrote: [snip] > Since I was mentioned, and at the risk of offending, the reason is this: > > We want to do two things: > - Run lint over all of the lint-clean sources as part of > the nightly build, to keep those sources lint-clean. > - Be able to run lint over all of the sources, lint-clean or not, > in order to find and clean up lint-dirty sources as time permits. > > The first part is achieved with $(SRC)/Makefile.lint > > The second part is done by: > cd $SRC/lib ; make lint > cd $SRC/cmd ; make lint > > So the next time we have a lint party (we used to do them every > couple of years), we can easily identify the lint-dirty sources.
What if the sources are externally maintained (e.g. "perl", "ksh93") ? Is there a procedure to say "... provide lint fixes to upstream..." ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
