Hi Alberto, On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 09:34:07AM +0100, Alberto Luaces wrote: > >> > I: company-irony source: testsuite-autopkgtest-missing > >> > >> This is N/A, I think. > > > > It's not required at this point in time, but someday it's possible > > that self tests will be required. Dh_elpa_test runs the tests as part > > of a package build, and autopkgtest is a framework that automates > > testing of packages in a container or virtual machine. Because this > > is Informational level lint it's not high priority for Lintian, but if > > you ever want to write a test that gets an company-irony autocompleted > > list for something, and then compares that against the expected list, > > in the expected order. Tests that provide assurances it won't do > > hilarious/embarrassing autocompletion like cell phones do. A Nice to > > have, later, if you have time and find the challenge interesting ;-) > > > > Ok. I don't have currently the skills for writing those tests, but > maybe in the future I can try to learn from some other packages. Sounds good! :-) > > Because for now the most pressing issue is that it doesn't initialise > > properly... > > > > Company backend 'company-clang' could not be initialized: > > Company found no clang executable > > > > This was both with no configuration (and M-x company-mode), and with > > following upstream's README in a clean sid chroot. I opened a random > > cpp from kdeconnect to test. I suspect a documentation of > > configuration issue because I would have expected company-irony to > > load rather than company-clang...but it's possibly a bug. > > > > Please let me know how you made company-irony work. > > Oh, yes, I think this is expected. From the documentation at > > /usr/share/doc/elpa-company-irony/README.md > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > > ## Configuration > > Add `company-irony` to your company backends. > > ~~~el > (eval-after-load 'company > '(add-to-list 'company-backends 'company-irony)) > ~~~ > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- This is exactly one of the two things that I tried. To be fair, company-irony's autocomplete seems to function properly despite this :-) Could you patch README.md to show how to remove company-clang from company-backends, and also document that this warning is harmless (if it's harmless). Thanks! Nicholas
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