On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 05:32:01PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > Coverity's website provides a service accepts "builds" (which is more or > > less the collection of '*.o' files generated during a standard build > > with "make") as input and generates reports as output. In order to > > generate a report, we have to first compile Git and then upload the > > build archive to Coverity. > > I don't think this is quite right. You run a build with their > "cov-build" wrapper, which does some magic. It _does_ invoke the actual > compiler, but does some extra magic, too (I don't know the details, but > it is running cov-translate and cov-emit on the actual source file). > > This maybe seems like nit-picking, but it will play into some questions > I have on the patch itself. I guess I never actually asked those questions, but they were: why are you asking for some specific version of gcc since we don't really care much about the actual compiler. But I think you don't care about the compiler version; you were just trying to feed enough data to install-dependencies to get it to run. -Peff
