Vera++ can look in alternative directories for input like rules and profiles, but it doesn't look in multiple directories. So if we customize it by using a ~/.vera++ directory, it ignores /usr/lib/vera++. We must there fore copy the latter to the former:

Vera++ 1.2.1 and vera++ 1.3 apparently expect different layouts of their configuration directories. So we add a symlink, to make them both work:

A rule might be a Tcl script. This is ~/.vera++/rules/J001:

#!/usr/bin/tclsh
# Binary operators should have whitespace on both sides.

# FixMe: '*' and '&' not checked because vera++ doesn't know whether they are
# pointer or arithmetic operators, and I've insufficient tcl skills to expand
# the state machine

set binops {
        andand
        andassign
        assign
        divide
        divideassign
        equal
        greater
        greaterequal
        less
        lessequal
        minus
        minusassign
        notequal
        or
        orassign
        oror
        percent
        percentassign
        plus
        plusassign
        question_mark
        shiftleft
        shiftleftassign
        shiftright
        shiftrightassign
        starassign
        xor
        xorassign
}


proc isBinop {s} {
        global binops
        return [expr [lsearch $binops $s] != -1]
}

# Current token
set tokenName "other"
set tokenValue ""
set line "0"
set column "0"

# Previous token
set tmin1Name "other"
set tmin1Val ""
set tmin1Line "0"
set tmin1Col "0"

# Two tokens ago
set tmin2Name "other"
# Don't remember anything else about tmin2

foreach f [getSourceFileNames] {
        foreach t [getTokens $f 1 0 -1 -1 {}] {
                set tmin1Line $line
                set tmin1Col $column
                set line [lindex $t 1]
                set column [lindex $t 2]
                
                set tmin2Name $tmin1Name
                set tmin1Name $tokenName
                set tmin1Val $tokenValue
                
                set tokenValue [lindex $t 0]
                set tokenName [lindex $t 3]
                if [isBinop $tmin1Name] {
                        if {$tmin2Name != "space" || $tokenName != "space"} {
                                report $f $line "binary operator \'${tmin1Val}\' not surrounded by whitespace"
                        }
                }
        }
}

This is ~/.vera++/profiles/cppc:

# L002 No tabs
# L003 No leading and no trailing empty lines
# L004 Line cannot be too long
# L005 There should not be too many consecutive empty lines
# L006 Source file should not be too long
# T001 One-line comments should not have forced continuation
# T004 Some keywords should be immediately followed by a colon
# T005 Keywords break and continue should be immediately followed by a
# T006 Keywords return and throw should be immediately followed by a
# T008 Blank after keywords (if, for, while, ...)
# T018 Using namespace is not allowed in header files
# T011 Curly brackets from the same pair should be either in the same
# J001 Blanks around binary operators
set rules {
        L002
        L003
        L004
        L005
        L006
        T001
        T004
        T005
        T006
        T008
        T011
        T018
        J001
}

Now we can check sources: