Re: [HACKERS] coverage analysis improvements

On 8/24/17 04:12, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Patch 0001 removes the .gcov files, which offer a text representation
> of the coverage. Sometimes I use that with a terminal... Not sure for
> the others, but that's my status on the matter. This also removes the
> target coverage. Please note that on some distributions, like, err...
> ArchLinux, lcov is not packaged in the core packages and it is
> necessary to make use of external sources (AUR). It would be nice to
> keep the original gcov calls as well, and keep the split between
> coverage-html and coverage. I think as well that html generate should
> be done only if lcov is found, and that text generation should be done
> only if gcov is used. It is annoying to see --enable-coverage fail
> because lcov only is missing, but it is not mandatory for coverage.

OK, I was not aware that people are using it that way.  So updated patch
set there, which separates coverage and coverage-html into two
independent targets.

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