Re: [Bug-wget] Removing form feeds from sources

[Darshit Shah]

On 11/20, Tim Rühsen wrote:
> On Thursday 20 November 2014 12:12:59 Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> > > If everybody agrees, I would like to remove the form feeds once and for
> > > all. Attached is a patch.
> > >
> > > FYI:
> > > to count form feeds
> > > grep -c `echo -e "\014"` <filename>
> > >
> > > to remove form feeds
> > > sed -i 's/'`echo -e "\014"`'//g' <filename>
> > >
> > > Tim
> >
> > if make syntax-check passes without problems, feel free to push it.
>
> I pushed it.
>
> I did not know about 'make syntax-check', but it return with 0 / success.
We've tried fixing things using make syntax-check for a couple of months now.

It consists of a bunch of sanity check rules, (the kind I want to implement as a 
pre-commit hook in git), provided by, (I'm guessing here), autotools. You can 
see cfg.mk file which lists the syntax-check rules that we skip.

> There is interesting output ... but I could not find any documentation.
That's true. There's sadly almost no documentation for make syntax-check.
> Tim


-- Thanking You,
Darshit Shah

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