BRL-CAD source code currently has over 450 C header (include) files. Header files usually include a preprocessor block that ensures the header is only included once. It usually looks something like this:

#ifndef THIS_HEADER
#define THIS_HEADER
... file contents ...

#endif /* THIS_HEADER */

This tasks basically involves editing that THIS_HEADER string for the src/lib* subdirectory headers so that they're using a consistent header guard naming convention. Some of our files use a convention like __FILE_H__ while others use FILE_H or FILE_H__ or others still using some other convention.

Your job is to make them all the same, based on the file name, for some of our headers. Our convention should be {SUBPATH_}FILENAME_H where SUBPATH indicates the subdirectory where the header resides minus the first directory; and FILENAME_H is the name of the file with punctuation and spaces converted to underscores.

Some examples:

• include/bu.h becomes just BU_H
• src/libbu/anim.h becomes LIBBU_ANIM_H
• src/conv/iges/iges.h becomes CONV_IGES_IGES_H

Code:

• src/lib* (e.g., src/libbu, src/librt, src/librt/primitives/nmg, etc)

Suggest using the VM if you're not on Linux, but this command will locate all of the header files for you from the top of a source tree checkout:

find . \( -not -regex '.*src/other.*' -not -regex '.*svn.*' -not -regex '.*cmake.*' \) -name \*.h | grep 'src/lib'

This is a lot of edits, but they are very simple edits. You don't even really need to understand C to do this task, but it might help you go a little faster. You're welcome to write a script or not.

You only need to be able to first compile BRL-CAD successfully so you can recompile during/after your edits and know whether you changed anything wrong.

Obtain our trunk sources from a Subversion checkout or VM from Sourceforge. Submit a patch file of all your changes: svn diff > my_patch.diff