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Re: coreutils test coverage
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: coreutils test coverage |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:15:02 +0200 |
Bo Borgerson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Daniel Dunbar wrote:
>> Here is the process I use for generating those results. First, generate the
>> coverage information:
>
> Thanks, that worked like a charm!
>
> I've attached a patch that puts your instructions into the HACKING file.
Thanks! Applied.
> I used a `.lcov' extension for the lcov output files instead of `.info',
> since that extension is already used in the doc/ directory for a
> different file format.
>
> One nice further addition would be to have `make clean' also remove the
Good idea. However, "make clean" only removes things created by
"make some-target", so you'd need ...
> generated `.gcda' and `.gcno' files, but I'm going to show my
> inexperience here and say I don't know how to do that safely. :)
Better still would be to add a Makefile target to do what
those rules say. Then HACKING can simply suggest to run "make lcov".