Package: clang-tidy-3.8 Version: 1:3.8~+rc2-1~exp1 Severity: important According to the upstream documentation at:
http://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/ the command: > clang-tidy-3.8 bool_switch.cc -checks=-*,clang-analyzer-* should work. Instead I get: Error while trying to load a compilation database: Could not auto-detect compilation database for file "bool_switch.cc" No compilation database found in /home/erikd or any parent directory json-compilation-database: Error while opening JSON database: No such file or directory Running without flags. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf, arm64 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_AU.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages clang-tidy-3.8 depends on: ii libc6 2.21-7 ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-7 ii libllvm3.8 1:3.8~svn254193-1 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-7 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20151024-2 ii python 2.7.11-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 clang-tidy-3.8 recommends no packages. clang-tidy-3.8 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information