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Hi all,
Would there be interest in using lcov [0] for test coverage analysis?
Obviously, as lcov is an external pacakge, the existing scripts that only use built in gcov commands must remain.
However, if I were to create a script that generates a pretty, HTML coverage report using lcov & genhtml, would this be something others would use? And how would you like to see this implemented? As a custom make target (e.g., make htmlcoverage + autotools black magic to silently disable/hide the target if we can't find lcov), or as a standalone script (i.e., ./scripts/test/run_lcov.sh).
For what it's worth, I've manually run lcov on tor after enabling coverage through ./configure, and the output seems sane, so I think from a technical standpoint this would work.
[0]: http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php
Cheers, daube