From 08a2e796e88ade1d8b703223ccdc0aed70cac1dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:06:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] make "make syntax-check" consistent with "git diff --check"

This makes "make syntax-check" fail when a version-controlled
file contains a trailing blank line.
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_trailing_blank_lines): New rule.
---
 cfg.mk | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 3b3d57f492..0bf935d51a 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -228,6 +228,15 @@ sc_libvirt_unmarked_diagnostics:
 	  { echo '$(ME): found unmarked diagnostic(s)' 1>&2;		\
 	    exit 1; } || :
 
+# Disallow trailing blank lines.
+sc_prohibit_trailing_blank_lines:
+	@$(VC_LIST_EXCEPT) | xargs perl -ln -0777 -e			\
+	  '/\n\n+$$/ and print $$ARGV' > $@-t
+	@found=0; test -s $@-t && { found=1; cat $@-t 1>&2;		\
+	  echo '$(ME): found trailing blank line(s)' 1>&2; };		\
+	rm -f $@-t;							\
+	test $$found = 0
+
 # We don't use this feature of maint.mk.
 prev_version_file = /dev/null