brett@wjvax.UUCP (Brett Galloway) (08/15/86)
I am currently working on some software in which I have created a number
of object libraries, and then I use those libraries to create my executables.
My question is how to use lint in an effective manner with these libraries,
on a 4.2 BSD system. I would like to perform two tasks with lint. First, I
would like to generate from each library directory a lint library for the
use of the higher-level libraries and top-level source. Second, I would
like to run lint on the source files in each library and on the top-level
source files using the relevant lint libraries. Therefore, I tried the
following construction in my makefile: (edited)
CFILES= <list of .c files in the library>
LIBMISCname= MISC
LLIBMISC= ../llib-l$(LIBMISCname).ln
LLIBS= ../llib-lGENERAL.ln <more lint libraries>
LINT= lint -I../../include -DLINT
$(LLIBMISC): $(CFILES)
$(LINT) -C$(LIBMISCname) $? $(LLIBMISC) [1]
$(LINT) -h $(CFILES) $(LLIBS) [2]
@mv llib-l$(LIBMISCname).ln $(LLIBMISC) [3]
The first line ([1]) supposedly lints the C source files that are out of date
together with the current lint library and drops a new library llib-lMISC.ln,
which I move onto the real lint library at the end (line [3]).
The second line ([2]) supposedly lints ALL the source files (since a change to
a given source file may make other unchanged C files fail which formerly
passed) together with the other relevant lint libraries.
My first question is whether my construction is correct and performs (in
the best way) what I want to do.
My second question concerns one incidental failure of this method. My lint
documentation says that the standard C library is checked by default. Yet
when I use this makefile for one particular library, I get complaints for the
following:
Variable number of arguments in fprintf()
Variable _iob used but not defined
Variable errno used but not defined
Variable _ctype_ used but not defined
Yet when I read /usr/lib/lint/llib-lc (the human-readable form of the standard
C lint library), I find definitions for _iob, errno, and _ctype_; and
fprintf() is declared as /*VARARGS*/. Why, then, is lint complaining?
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Brett Galloway
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Brett Galloway
{pesnta,twg,ios,qubix,turtlevax,tymix,vecpyr,certes,isi}!wjvax!brettireland@ALMSA-1.ARPA (Mike Ireland) (08/26/86)
A better fix for the bug in /usr/bin/lint might be to skip include libraries in the first case statement, i.e.: -l*) ;; -*n*) P= ;; -*p*) P=port ;; This fix does not require any change in specifying switches and will allow an n or p in an include library name. -Mike. -- Mike Ireland <ireland@almsa-1.arpa> ..!seismo!ireland@almsa-1.arpa USAMC ALMSA, Box 1578, St. Louis, MO 63188-1578 (314) 263-5118, AV 693