[Development] PSA: Lack of Coverity Scan builds

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

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,
-- 
Giuseppe D'Angelo | giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer
KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company
Tel. France +33 (0)4 90 84 08 53, http://www.kdab.com
KDAB - Trusted Software Excellence

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