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     1 SCANLOG.PL
       
     2 17/02/2003
       
     3 
       
     4 1. Introduction
       
     5 
       
     6 scanlog.pl is a utility for summarising a build log. It reports the time 
       
     7 taken for each phase of the build, and the numbers of fatal errors and warnings.
       
     8 For each component, the numbers of warnings and errors are accumulated across
       
     9 all phases and reported by component.
       
    10 
       
    11 
       
    12 2. Log file format
       
    13 
       
    14 scanlog expects the logfiles to have a particular structure for identifying 
       
    15 the phases and components. It will tolerate log files which don't fully conform
       
    16 to this structure, but the reporting will have less detail.
       
    17 
       
    18 The expected structure is:
       
    19 
       
    20 ===-------------------------------------------------
       
    21 === <command for the phase>
       
    22 ===-------------------------------------------------
       
    23 === <phase> started Fri Feb  7 12:47:28 2003.
       
    24 === <phase> == <component1>
       
    25 ... build output
       
    26 === <phase> == <component2>
       
    27 ... build output
       
    28 === <phase> == <componentN>
       
    29 ... build output
       
    30 === <phase> finished Fri Feb  7 13:13:41 2003.
       
    31 
       
    32 <phase> should be a single word without spaces, for example "target".
       
    33 The timestamps are optional and not processed by the current version of scanlog,
       
    34 though they are being processed by other tools.
       
    35 
       
    36 For this example, scanlog would summarise this part of the log as
       
    37 
       
    38 <command for the phase>		00:26:13	0	0
       
    39 
       
    40 assuming that there are no errors or warnings detected.
       
    41 
       
    42 
       
    43 3. Errors and Warnings
       
    44 
       
    45 Scanlog uses a set of regular expressions to identify lines in the log file
       
    46 which are usually associated with errors or warnings, for example:
       
    47 
       
    48 	/make(\[\d+\])?: \*\*\* /		-- e.g. make[2]: ***
       
    49 
       
    50 which is the way that GNU make reports a failure. 
       
    51 
       
    52 This rather simple approach can overstate the number of errors, particularly 
       
    53 given the nested makefile approach used by the Symbian build tools. It is
       
    54 counting the symptoms of a failure rather than necessarily identifying the
       
    55 root cause.
       
    56 
       
    57 Errors are warnings are summarised according to the build phase (described above)
       
    58 and also accumulated across build phases and reported by component. If scanlog
       
    59 is invoked with the additional -V argument, the lines counted as warnings and
       
    60 errors are reported for each component, to aid problem diagnosis.
       
    61 
       
    62 
       
    63 4. Things not built...
       
    64 
       
    65 Scanlog also looks for lines which begin with "MISSING: ", which are normally
       
    66 produced by the output of "abld -check build". The missing files are listed and
       
    67 marked with the component which reported them, serving as an additional view of
       
    68 what has actually failed if fatal errors are reported.
       
    69 
       
    70 
       
    71 5. List of patterns 
       
    72 
       
    73 Scanlog originally just looked for errors and warnings arising from the structure
       
    74 of the Symbian build, but has increasingly gained patterns to detect output from
       
    75 specific tools such as the ARM RealView compiler. This contributes to the "over
       
    76 counting" of errors, but provides more useful "scanlog -V" output.
       
    77 
       
    78 Scanlog uses these patterns to identify errors:
       
    79 
       
    80 	/^MISSING COMPONENT (.*):.* find (.*)$/
       
    81 	/(ABLD|BLDMAKE) ERROR:/
       
    82 	/FATAL ERROR\(S\):/
       
    83 	/fatal error U1073: .* make '(.*)'/
       
    84 	/fatal error U1077/
       
    85 	/warning U4010/
       
    86 	/make(\[\d+\])?: \*\*\* /
       
    87 	/make(\[\d+\])?: .* not remade /
       
    88  	/"(.*)", line (\d+): (Error: +(.\d+.*?):.*)$/
       
    89 	/error: ((Internal fault):.*)$/
       
    90 	/Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION/
       
    91 	/target .*? given more than once in the same rule/
       
    92 	/^ERROR: /
       
    93  
       
    94 The "warning U4010" pattern catches lines such as
       
    95  
       
    96   NMAKE : warning U4010: 'FINALCOPYFXCM' : build failed; /K specified, continuing ...
       
    97  
       
    98 which would arise from the use of nmake /k in situations which would otherwise 
       
    99 be fatal errors.
       
   100  
       
   101   
       
   102 Scanlog uses these patterns to identify warnings:
       
   103  
       
   104 	/Warning: Unmatched/i
       
   105 	/^BLDMAKE WARNING:/
       
   106 	/WARNING\(S\)/
       
   107 	/^WARNING: /
       
   108 	/\(\d+\) : warning C/
       
   109 	/LINK : warning/
       
   110 	/:\d+: warning:/
       
   111 	/"(.*)", line (\d+): (Warning: +(.\d+.*?):.*)$/
       
   112 	/^MAKEDEF WARNING:/
       
   113 	/ERROR: bad relocation:/
       
   114     	/mwldsym\d+.exe: warning:/
       
   115 	/^(\d+) warning/
       
   116 	/mwld.exe:/
       
   117 	/^Command line warning/
       
   118 	/Usage Warning:/
       
   119  
       
   120 The "ERROR: bad relocation" pattern catches messages from petran which are actually
       
   121 just warnings, for example:
       
   122  
       
   123   ERROR: bad relocation:  [00004f60] = 00000f68
       
   124  
       
   125 Petran follows a heuristic in these cases, and to date there has never been a 
       
   126 runtime error attributed to this warning.
       
   127