[FFmpeg-devel] [FFmpeg-cvslog] build: use a link instead of changing current directory when compiling

Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com
Sun Feb 7 22:49:17 CET 2016


On 06.02.2016 21:49, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 04:26:43PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>> On 03.02.2016 00:41, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>>> I see, it passes '-b $(SRC_PATH)' to lcov, which is now unnecessary/harmful
>>> for out-of-tree builds using the src link.
>>> The first attached patch changes it to simply use the current directory in
>>> that case.
>>> The second patch was necessary to fix the following error:
>>> lcov: ERROR: cannot write to coverage.info!
>>>
>>> Does it work for you without that patch?
>>
>> I'd still be interested in an answer, but I've pushed the patches now to
>> unbreak coverage.ffmpeg.org.
>>
> 
> I'm really sorry, I didn't have time to try out this week. Thanks for the
> fix, coverage.ffmpeg.org is up again.

No problem. Thanks for following up now.

> About providing more information than a 404 when there is an error, that
> would indeed be better, but I lack time currently, and this is really not
> a priority for me.

OK. It's just something to add to the ever growing TODO list, I guess.

On 06.02.2016 22:43, Clément Bœsch wrote:
>> The second patch was necessary to fix the following error:
>> > lcov: ERROR: cannot write to coverage.info!
>> > 
>> > Does it work for you without that patch?
>> > 
> I confirm it fails the same way as you without the second patch.

Thanks for confirming that. I find it a bit strange, as I don't see why it
doesn't work as previously. But since it was easy to work around, I won't dig
deeper.

Best regards,
Andreas


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