[bug-inetutils] Re: gcov/lcov problems

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:

> Was trying to have some fun and get `make coverage' working, but I'm
> hitting some werido problems that I don't understand.  Does anyone
> know why this happens, and how to fix it?
>
> Processing src/tftp.gcda
> Processing src/tftp.gcda
> <built-in>:cannot open source file
> geninfo: ERROR: cannot read <built-in>.gcov!

I've seen this too for other projects, and it is generally some
confusion about which directory to search for the *.gcda file.  If you
strace lcov you will see that it is searching for the file at the wrong
place.  Sometimes I create symlinks to work around this (the output
seems OK) if I really want to get the output, but it would be great if
this was tracked down and fixed properly.

/Simon