[Development] PSA: Lack of Coverity Scan builds

[Volker Hilsheimer]

> On 31 Jan 2025, at 09:32, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
> 
> On 30/01/2025 18:45, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> On Thursday 30 January 2025 09:09:47 Pacific Standard Time Giuseppe D'Angelo
>> via Development wrote:
>>> Some of you may have noticed the lack of reports by Coverity Scan in the
>>> last couple of weeks. The reason is that Coverity updated their scanning
>>> tool to the 2024.6 version (on Jan 11th), and the new tool crashes qsb
>>> when building qtdeclarative.
>> We can switch to QT_HOST_TOOLS builds in Coverity, so we don't run the
>> Coverity-built tools while building the code for Coverity to scan.
> 
> Well, the tool itself is built just fine; it's binary identical to one built without Coverity. It's more likely that Coverity is doing something like tracing it during the build process and something goes wrong there, so host tools aren't going to make a difference I'm afraid :(
> 

Thanks for looking after this Peppe, looks like things are working again? At least I got a few reports from Coverity Scan in the last days.

Cheers,
Volker