We should allow strings (not the functions) in the format of "virDomainFree" and friends. This fixes an error in latter commit "scripts: apibuild: parse 'Since' for functions" as it uses this function names as keys in a dictionary. Fixes: | ... | prohibit_virXXXFree | libvirt/scripts/apibuild.py:163: 'virDomainFree': '0.0.1', | make: Leaving directory '/home/toso/src/libvirt/build/build-aux' | stderr: | build-aux/syntax-check.mk: avoid using virXXXFree, use virObjectUnref instead | make: *** [libvirt/build-aux/syntax-check.mk:829: sc_prohibit_virXXXFree] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Victor Toso <victortoso@xxxxxxxxxx> --- build-aux/syntax-check.mk | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/build-aux/syntax-check.mk b/build-aux/syntax-check.mk index eb403f3d3f..07e0295995 100644 --- a/build-aux/syntax-check.mk +++ b/build-aux/syntax-check.mk @@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ sc_prohibit_system_error_with_vir_err: # docs, examples, tools, src/libvirt-*.c, and include/libvirt/libvirt-*.h sc_prohibit_virXXXFree: @prohibit='\bvir(Domain|Network|NodeDevice|StorageVol|StoragePool|Stream|Secret|NWFilter|Interface|DomainSnapshot)Free\b' \ - exclude='sc_prohibit_virXXXFree' \ + exclude="sc_prohibit_virXXXFree|'vir.*?Free'" \ halt='avoid using virXXXFree, use virObjectUnref instead' \ $(_sc_search_regexp) -- 2.35.1