The diff files in gnulib/local may well contain trailing whitespace. They are simply diff's of gnulib code which should not be modified to follow libvirt style rules. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Pushed as a build fix cfg.mk | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk index 22de11ce43..bc8088d7c0 100644 --- a/cfg.mk +++ b/cfg.mk @@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_require_config_h_first = \ ^(examples/|tools/virsh-edit\.c$$) exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_trailing_blank = \ - /qemuhelpdata/|/sysinfodata/.*\.data|/virhostcpudata/.*\.cpuinfo$$ + /qemuhelpdata/|/sysinfodata/.*\.data|/virhostcpudata/.*\.cpuinfo|^gnulib/local/.*/.*diff$$ exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_unmarked_diagnostics = \ ^(docs/apibuild.py|tests/virt-aa-helper-test|docs/js/.*\.js)$$ -- 2.14.3