Bug#566378: ITP: dehydra -- Scriptable static analysis tool for C++

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

On 07.04.2010 14:11, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:57:31PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:29:24PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > > Is there any progress on this? Afaics all required dependencies are
> > > in unstable/testing.  The gcc-4.4-plugindev package may require some
> > > additional header files.
> >
> > AFAIK, it only builds with gcc-4.5 and even then, treehydra doesn't
> > work. I don't remember if I tried gcc-4.4-plugin-dev, so I should
> > probably try (again?), but I definitely tried with gcc-4.5-plugin-dev,
> > and while dehydra worked, treehydra didn't.
>
> Dehydra doesn't build with gcc-4.4-plugin-dev, because it requires
> timevar.def, that is only provided in gcc-4.5-plugin-dev.

we can add more to gcc-4.4-plugin-dev, if it's required. just tell, what should 
be added.

Apparently, it requires more work. There seems to be support to build dehydra 
for gcc-4.3 as well. would that be a solution for squeeze?

> Treehydra still doesn't work, and I'll check with Taras Glek what should
> be done with it.
>
> There aren't any install rules, are there any paths the -fplugin option
> of gcc checks other than the current directory ?

No, there's patch pending to do that, but it's not yet accepted. 
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-04/msg00299.html

> > Also, the copyright in the upstream source is obviously wrong: it reads
> > Copyright (C) 1983 Mozilla Corporation. Until this is clarified, I don't
> > expect this would pass NEW.
>
> This, OTOH, has been worked out.

thanks