Coverity Scan Setup?

Question

Coverity offers a free scanning service for free and open source projects (http://scan.coverity.com). I'm trying to configure a project for a scan according to Download Coverity Scan Self-Build. From their web page:

For each build:

1. cd to your build directory

2. optional: Run any build steps that you don't want to analyze – i.e. ./configure

3. cov-build --dir cov-int [BUILD CMD and ARGS]

I have three questions:

• Is make considered a build script for these purposes? Or is it part of [BUILD CMD and ARGS]

• Does their build slave include libraries such as Boost? We have an [undesired] dependency on the library

• What configuration does the scanning service want? Debug, Test, or Release?

Answer 1

• Is make considered a build script for these purposes? Or is it part of [BUILD CMD and ARGS]

Yes! simply use make as BUILD CMD. Alternatively ant, cmake, whatever your build system is based on.

• Does their build slave include libraries such as Boost? We have an [undesired] dependency on the library

You may configure this rule

• What configuration does the scanning service want? Debug, Test, or Release?

Doesn't matter, you can scan any configuration you want.