title: Coverity Scan Setup?
body: <p>Coverity offers a free scanning service for free and open source projects (<a href="http://scan.coverity.com" rel="nofollow">http://scan.coverity.com</a>). I'm trying to configure a project for a scan according to <a href="http://scan.coverity.com/download" rel="nofollow">Download Coverity Scan Self-Build</a>. From their web page:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>For each build:</p>
    
    <ol>
    <li><p>cd to your build directory</p></li>
    <li><p>optional: Run any build steps that you don't want to analyze – i.e. ./configure</p></li>
    <li><p>cov-build --dir cov-int [BUILD CMD and ARGS]</p></li>
    </ol>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I have three questions:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Is <code>make</code> considered a build script for these purposes? Or is it part of [BUILD CMD and ARGS]</p></li>
  <li><p>Does their build slave include libraries such as Boost? We have an [undesired] dependency on the library</p></li>
  <li><p>What configuration does the scanning service want? Debug, Test, or Release?</p></li>
  </ul>