Re: maintainer-makefile troubles and suggestions

[Jim Meyering]

Martin von Gagern wrote:
> On 21.01.2010 17:10, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Thanks for all the feedback!
>
> I've got two more.
>
> sc_prohibit_atoi_atof:
> ----------------------
>
> The comment claims that [fs]?scanf doesn't provide error feedback. The
> "return value" section of my scanf(3) man page says differently: the
> number of successful conversions is returned, which is quite a suitable
> error indication in many cases, I believe.

Some implementations do not handle overflow.
If you do not want to use one of these tests,
add its name to the list in your project's cfg.mk file:

    # Tests not to run as part of "make distcheck".
    local-checks-to-skip = sc_prohibit_atoi_atof


> sc_prohibit_strcmp:
> -------------------
>
> Judging from the lib/streq.h file, STREQ seems to be only suitable for

That STREQ is unrelated to the definition that most of us use:

  #define STREQ(a, b) (strcmp (a, b) == 0)

As above, if you don't want it, add it to the list of checks to skip.