Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/build: Remove hacked up version of figlet

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 13.09.13 at 11:30, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 10:14 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 12.09.13 at 17:51, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > This hacked up version of figlet contributes a supprisingly large 
> proportion
>> > of the Coverity issues found under xen/ (and therefore attributed against 
>> > Xen)
>> > 
>> > Figlet can be found in all distros, so make use of it.
>> 
>> None of the systems I checked (SLE10 and SLE11) have this
>> installed, and I also don't know what package to look for.
> 
> rpm.pbone.net shows a figlet package in OpenSUSE but not SLE, although I
> don't know if it indexes them.

Of course I searched the package set for something containing
"figlet" in some way, so no, it's not there, also not on the SDK.

>>  Which
>> you can read as an almost definitive NAK from me. I also can't
>> see why you can't just exclude xen/tools/ from the Coverity
>> scan...
> 
> Or make the banner conditional on figlet's presence.

Yes, perhaps. Albeit the banner is quite useful as an easily
recognizable separator in multi-session logs or other lumped
together stuff. I'd be more agreeable to this if the whole
change wasn't just to make a tool happy...

Jan


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