Recent versions of the tool will look for Python scripts on their own, but when performing a VPATH build it's very likely the resulting list will be empty and nothing will actually be checked. Point flake8 to the files explicitly to avoid the issue. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile.am | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index cf7994e..a0696bf 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -46,6 +46,6 @@ gen-AUTHORS: # E501: (line too long) warning is ignored. .PHONY: flake8 flake8: - flake8 --show-source --ignore=E501 + flake8 --show-source --ignore=E501 $(srcdir)/tests/*.py syntax-check: flake8 -- 2.17.1 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list