RE: Semantic errors

["Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On March 22, 2019 17:25, Fabio Aiuto
> Il giorno gio, 21/03/2019 alle 17.03 -0400, Randall S. Becker ha
> scritto:
> > > Of On March 21, 2019 15:32, Fabio Aiuto wrote:
> > > Il giorno gio, 21/03/2019 alle 15.16 -0400, Randall S. Becker ha
> > > scritto:
> > > > On March 21, 2019 15:06, Fabio Aiuto wrote:
> > > > > I'm browsins git code with Eclipse. I'm on a local branch called
> > > > > "studio" based on master (last public commit e902e9b by Junio C
> > > > > Hamano on Monday March 11 2019). I've built everything by
> > > > > changing:
> > > > > CFLAGS = -g -Wall (removing -O2 to have smooth trace in
> > > > > debugging).
> > > > > But the environment detects the following semantic errors (I
> > > > > made no
> > > > > edits!!!):
> > > > > Description	Resource	Path	Location
> > > > > Type
> > > > > Symbol 'GIT_HTML_PATH' could not be resolved	git.c
> > > > > /g
> > > > > it
> > > > > line 154	Semantic Error
> > > > > Symbol 'GIT_MAN_PATH' could not be resolved	git.c
> > > > > /gi
> > > > > t
> > > > > line 158	Semantic Error
> > > > > Symbol 'GIT_INFO_PATH' could not be resolved	git.c
> > > > > /g
> > > > > it
> > > > > line 162	Semantic Error
> > > > > Symbol 'active_cache' could not be resolved	commit.c
> > > > > /git
> > > > > /builtin	line 899	Semantic Error
> > > > > Field 'ce_intent_to_add(active_cache[i])' could not be resolved
> > > > > commit.c	/git/builtin	line 899	Semantic
> > > > > Error
> > > > > Symbol 'active_nr' could not be resolved	commit.c
> > > > > /gi
> > > > > t/bu
> > > > > iltin	line 889	Semantic Error
> > > > > Symbol 'active_nr' could not be resolved	commit.c
> > > > > /gi
> > > > > t/bu
> > > > > iltin	line 898	Semantic Error
> > > > > Field 'oid' could not be resolved	commit.c	/git/b
> > > > > uilt
> > > > > in
> > > > > line 1654	Semantic Error
> > > > > Symbol 'active_nr' could not be resolved	commit.c
> > > > > /gi
> > > > > t/bu
> > > > > iltin	line 901	Semantic Error
> > > > > Symbol 'active_cache_tree' could not be resolved	commit.
> > > > > c
> > > > > /git/builtin	line 1654	Semantic Error
> > > > > Symbol 'active_cache_changed' could not be resolved	comm
> > > > > it.c
> > > > > /git/builtin	line 418	Semantic Error
> > > > > Symbol 'active_cache_tree' could not be resolved	commit.
> > > > > c
> > > > > /git/builtin	line 419	Semantic Error
> > > > > Symbol 'active_nr' could not be resolved	commit.c
> > > > > /gi
> > > > > t/bu
> > > > > iltin	line 254	Semantic Error
> > > > > Symbol 'active_cache' could not be resolved	commit.c
> > > > > /git
> > > > > /builtin	line 255	Semantic Error
> > > > >
> > > > > I can debug without problems, but what if I should trece through
> > > > > one of those errors?
> > > > > How can I fix them?
> > > >
> > > > This situation occurs in many projects in ECLIPSE, not only git.
> > > > The
> > > > errors are likely coming from one of the error parsers that you
> > > > have enabled in your workspace. Look in the Project Properties or
> > > > Workspace Preferences under C/C++ Build/Settings in the Error
> > > > Parsers tab for your build configuration. You may have to turn off
> > > > some of those.
> > > > There is also the C/C++ General/Code Analysis Preferences setting
> > > > where you might have to turn off the problematic errors. I have
> > > > found that this is a common situation for code that is imported
> > > > into ECLIPSE from other platforms, where the GNU error and
> > > > analysis tools are overly aggressive by default.
> > > >
> > > > Good luck.
> > > > Randall
> > > >
> > > > -- Brief whoami:
> > > >  NonStop developer since approximately 211288444200000000
> > > >  UNIX developer since approximately 421664400
> > > > -- In my real life, I talk too much.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thank you I tried to disable all of them, but they all remain. For
> > > example the variable 'active_nr' is actually never declared. That's
> > > so strange.
> > > Hope to
> > > solve this all soon. I'm freezed...
> >
> > It is very likely in ECLIPSE either in workstation or project settings
> > relating to error parsers (turn everything off). It still may be an
> > error parser issue. One key thing... do not use -Wall.
> > There are also settings about what to do in some error conditions
> > configured in ECLIPSE. -Wall could be probably triggering a response
> > from one of the error parsers. But the Semantic Error type is not
> > normally from the compiler; rather, it is from ECLIPSE CDT pre-
> > scanning the code. Anyway, check out other -W settings to disable all
> > warnings as a start. If you are building in Cygwin or Mingw, you
> > probably can ignore the ECLIPSE errors, especially if git actually
> > built. If you are trying to mix a managed build and a non-managed
> > build in the same project, you are going to be out of luck.
> >
> If I run a make inside the git working directory, this will just create binaries in
> the working directory. But in my home/{myname}/bin/ I have found the
> following files:
> 
> git git-cvsserver gitk git-receive-pack git-shell git-upload-archive git-upload-
> pack
> 
> Maybe they are deployed by a make install I run accidentally (I think that's
> possible). How could I clean the effect of this accidental install? If I don't
> clean this install could I have problems in the future?

I haven't done a Windows build so I really can't help here. Anyone else able to chime in?