This is mostly a long term maintenance improvement.
Many coding styles require elimination of trailing whitespace, and
many editors and source code management configurations automatically
gobble up whitespace. When these tools gobble up whitespace, it
complicates reviewing the meaningful code changes.
By removing whitespace on one patch, it makes future
code reviews much easier.
=SCRIPT====================================================================
if which tempfile &>/dev/null; then
TEMPMAKER=tempfile
elif which mktemp &>/dev/null; then
TEMPMAKER=mktemp
else
echo "Cannot find tempfile program." 2>&1
exit 1
fi
MYTEMP=$($TEMPMAKER)
trap 'rm -f $MYTEMP' SIGINT SIGTERM
stripit() {
echo "stripping $1"
sed 's/[ \t]*$//' "$1" > $MYTEMP
cp $MYTEMP "$1"
}
if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
while [ "$1" != "" ]; do
stripit $1
shift
done
else
while read -t 2; do
stripit $REPLY
done
fi
rm $MYTEMP
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From Sébastien Villemot:
I attach to this message 5 patches that are currently applied to the
Debian package for LAPACK, and that I think could be usefully merged in
the LAPACK SVN tree.
The patches include fixes for old outstanding bugs in the CBLAS test
programs, fixes for the build system, and fixes for various typos.
Each patch file contains a more detailed description of its purpose.
Mark Gates