Re: Generating code coverage reports

Michelle Caisse <Michelle.Caisse@Sun.COM> writes:
> I have a patch that I will be submitting to add to the build system the 
> capability of reporting on test code coverage metrics for the test 
> suite.

Cool.

> To generate coverage statistics, you run configure with 
> --enable-coverage and after building and running tests, you do make 
> coverage. The process generates data files in the same directories as 
> source & object files and produces a coverage directory at the top level 
> with the html files.

How does that work with a VPATH build?  Are you trying to say that you
still have to have the original build tree around in order to collect
coverage data?
        regards, tom lane