From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: julia.lawall@lip6.fr (Julia Lawall) Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 17:57:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Cocci] Need help compiling coccinelle on Ubuntu 16.04 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr List-Id: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr On Sat, 19 May 2018, Patrick Doyle wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 1:36 AM, Julia Lawall wrote: > > On Wed, 16 May 2018, Patrick Doyle wrote: > > > >> I just tried compiling coccinelle on a Ubuntu 16.04 system, having > >> installed all the dependencies that seem to make sense, and it fails > >> to compile. > > > > I had this problem and then somehow it disappeared... I think that > > somehow it is supposed to be giving a warning, but not actually failing. > > But it does really look like it fails. We will look into it. > > > > Julia > Thank you Julia, > I think you are correct. When I looked more closely at the error > message, I saw that make ignored the failure code, and indeed, when I > attempted to run my application that relies upon spach > 1.0.6 (the > Linux backports tool), it appears to have worked. That's great! Sorry that the output is so misleading... julia > > Sorry for the spam... I had reached the point where one too many > things were going wrong and decided to just stop and ask for some > help. > > Thanks again. > > --wpd >