On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 06:23:45AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 06:40:25AM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > sbuild supports running lintian, autopkgtest and piuparts because they are > > (or > > should) be applicable to *all* Debian packages. > > > > blhc on the other hand is only applicable for packages that run gcc at some > > point during the build and will never be useful for all the other packages. > > So > > instead of adding a checker for gcc-based packages today, one for OCaml > > packages tomorrow and then 20 more for all the other programming languages > > we > > have in Debian, I'd rather implement support for a wrapper to these tools > > which > > is then doing the right thing. > > Good point. I didn't think of that.
This is actually not a problem: blhc is perfectly able to run on any
build log, no metter whether actual compilers were run or if there
wasn't any actual compiling involved.
It has a specific return code (1) for those cases. See the bottom of
blhc(1), "EXIT STATUS".
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