Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Revert "configure: Remove --enable-test-coverage"

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On 8/13/19 10:49 AM, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> Gnulib's make coverage (or init-coverage, build-coverage, gen-coverage)
> is not a 1-1 replacement for the original configure option. Our old
> --enable-test-coverage seems to be close to gnulib's make build-coverage
> except gnulib runs lcov in that phase and the build actually fails for
> me even before lcov is run. And since we want to be able to just build
> libvirt without running lcov, I suggest reverting to our own
> implementation.
> 
> I admit the best solution would be to somehow make gnulib support what
> we need (and fix the actual build), but I don't feel brave enough to do
> that. Eric? :-)

There, it's probably better to ask the bug-gnulib list (rather than just
me), to possibly widen the set of developers that could actually make
those sort of changes.

> 
> Also if we ever switch to glib and drop gnulib completely, we would need
> to reintroduce our own implementation anyway.

True.

> 
> I had to do some changes to resolve conflicts. The changes were not too
> big, but I figured I'd rather resend this patch especially when I
> originally forgot to Cc the original author of the reverted patch.
> 
> Jiri Denemark (2):
>   Revert "configure: Remove --enable-test-coverage"
>   Revert "docs: hacking: Add 'Code coverage reports' section"
> 

ACK series

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