Re: Autotools lint tool

2019-10-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019, Richard Ash wrote: On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 17:06:18 -0500 (CDT) Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Many existing common tests found in Autoconf scripts can just be removed since standards have made them unnecessary. At the risk of being contrary, this is one of the things which a "linter

Re: Autotools lint tool

2019-10-07 Thread David A. Wheeler
Here's a list of some style recommendations I made for autotools use: https://dwheeler.com/autotools/#style I think a number of them could be implemented by a linter. You could also warn about a missing AC_INIT and AC_OUTPUT, although I suspect such problems are rare in practice. --- David A. Wh