[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#844267: Bug#844267: Bug#844267: sbuild: Support for blhc

[Mattia Rizzolo]

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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