From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 08:17:09 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Remove obsolete syntax-check rules.
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ff1331c2f24b14f7e87b2c6bc51bdf0ca151707e;p=thirdparty%2Fgnulib.git

Remove obsolete syntax-check rules.

* Makefile (sc_maint): Comment out.
(sc_cpp_indent_check, sc_check_sym_list): Remove targets.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c1e5b652bf..738dce26d2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2025-05-07  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+	Remove obsolete syntax-check rules.
+	* Makefile (sc_maint): Comment out.
+	(sc_cpp_indent_check, sc_check_sym_list): Remove targets.
+
 2025-05-07  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
 	Fix "make sc_check_config_h_reminder" failure.
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 88f8cd304d..b2d0cec897 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -73,12 +73,13 @@ sc_prohibit_sc_omitted_at:
 		 1>&2; exit 1; } || :					\
 	else :; fi
 
-# Run all maint.mk syntax-check tests on gnulib's sources.
-sc_maint:
-	@rm -f maint.mk; ln -s top/maint.mk maint.mk
-	$(MAKE) -s srcdir=. gnulib_dir=. _build-aux=build-aux \
-	        -f cfg.mk -f maint.mk syntax-check
-	rm -f maint.mk
+## Unmaintained. When removing this rule, also remove cfg.mk.
+## # Run all maint.mk syntax-check tests on gnulib's sources.
+## sc_maint:
+## 	@rm -f maint.mk; ln -s top/maint.mk maint.mk
+## 	$(MAKE) -s srcdir=. gnulib_dir=. _build-aux=build-aux \
+## 	        -f cfg.mk -f maint.mk syntax-check
+## 	rm -f maint.mk
 
 sc_prohibit_AC_LIBOBJ_in_m4:
 	url=https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2011-06/msg00051.html; \
@@ -120,26 +121,6 @@ sc_pragma_columns:
 		 exit 1; } || :;					\
 	else :; fi
 
-# Verify that certain (for now, only Jim Meyering and Eric Blake's)
-# *.c files are consistently cpp indented.
-sc_cpp_indent_check:
-	@./gnulib-tool --extract-filelist \
-	    $$(cd ./modules; grep -ilrE '(meyering|blake)' .) \
-	  | sort -u \
-	  | grep '\.c$$' \
-	  | grep -vE '/(stdio-(read|write)|getloadavg)\.c$$' \
-	  | xargs cppi -c
-
-# Ensure that the list of symbols checked for by the
-# sc_prohibit_intprops_without_use rule match those in the actual file.
-# Extract the symbols from the .h file and compare with the list of
-# symbols extracted from the rule in maint.mk.
-sc_check_sym_list:
-	@i=lib/intprops.h; \
-	diff -u <(perl -lne '/^# *define ([A-Z]\w+)\(/ and print $$1' $$i|fmt) \
-	  <(sed -n /^_intprops_name/,/^_intprops_syms_re/p top/maint.mk \
-	    |sed '/^_/d;s/^  //;s/	*\\$$//')
-
 
 # List of C macros defined through AH_VERBATIM in m4/extern-inline.m4:
 config_h_MACROS1 = \