Opened 10 years ago

#44179 new request

port request: BSD lint, aka xlint

Reported by: jhi Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.3.1
Keywords: Cc:
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Description

The good old lint(1) is still available from NetBSD:

http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/usr.bin/xlint/

It is also available in FreeBSD:

http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/usr.bin/xlint/

I tried quickly grabbing the sources and compiling it, but ran into the *BSD specific build oddities (like ".include <bsd.subdir.mk> " in Makefiles), with which I'm not that familiar.

I'm aware of splint (www.splint.org) being available with macports, but it seems to die (become unusable) pretty quickly on anything that touches OS X header files (e.g. trying to process the Perl source code files). I have no proof that the Classic Lint would fare any better, but I can hope.

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