[libvirt] [PATCHv4] build: restore operation of bit-rotted 'make cov'

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:15:35PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> './autobuild.sh' with lcov installed discovered that our
> coverage support has been bit-rotting for a while.  This
> restores it back to a successful state, although I have
> not yet spent any time looking through the resulting files to
> look for low-hanging fruit in the unit test coverage front.
> 
> * configure.ac: Clear COMPILER_FLAGS at right place.
> * Makefile.am (cov): Newer genhtml no longer likes plain -s.
> * m4/compiler-flags.m4 (gl_COMPILER_FLAGS): Don't AC_SUBST
> COMPILER_FLAGS; it is a shell variable for use in configure only.
> * src/Makefile.am (AM_CFLAGS, AM_LDFLAGS): New variables, to make
> it easier to provide global flag additions.  Use throughout, to
> uniformly apply coverage flags.
> * .gitignore: Globally ignore gcov output.
> * daemon/.gitignore: Simplify.
> * src/.gitignore: Likewise.
> * tests/.gitignore: Likewise.
> ---
> 
> v3 had an ACK at:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-June/msg00660.html
> but I never applied it because it was part of a larger series that
> had not been completed.
> 
> I'm now at the point where this is easy enough to include in
> 0.8.3, while leaving the docs VPATH fixups for post release, but it
> has changed enough to need another ACK before I can push.
> 
> Changes from v3:
> rebase to present status (several conflicts resolved in src/Makefile.am)
> fix 'cov' rule in Makefile.am to allow VPATH usage

  Hum, this is a rather large patch, in one hand it would be good to
run this before 0.8.3, but on the other hand it touches a lot of
Makefiles. With the release postponed to early next week maybe we can
push this, but I let you decide

ACK

Daniel

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