On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 3:00 PM Maarten Hoes <hoes.maarten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I guess that 'git bisect run' considers things a 'success' if the build succeeds (zero exit code), and a 'failure' if the build fails (non zero exit code). Duh. But I don't get the impression that it matters to git what it exactly was that made the build fail ? I mean, what if there were multiple build breakages between 'good commit' and 'bad commit', but you are only looking for a specific failure (gcov related), and not possible others that also broke the build ?
Ah. Reading back this particular bit, it seems I misunderstood at least this part. It doesn't matter what it was that broke the build (gcov related or not), because build breakage is not what you are looking for: what you are looking for is the last build that succeeded when building with gcov. Still, I guess it would speed up the process if you could make a subtarget from an otherwise clean build. Sorry for this part.
- Maarten
