Re: make coverage

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Tim,

> 'make coverage' fails here due to two tests failing, thus no coverage
> report is created.
> I couldn't find a better solution.

In the comment, you write "possible crash when compiled with -coverage".
Our tests should not crash, with or without --coverage, on glibc systems.

IMO we should try to make these tests not crash.

What is the list of steps for "How to reproduce"?

> There still is
> 
> Processing file gllib/gllib/unicase/special-casing-table.gperf
> genhtml: ERROR: cannot read
> /usr/oms/src/testdir1/gllib/gllib/unicase/special-casing-table.gperf
> maint.mk:1500: recipe for target 'gen-coverage' failed
> 
> (Maybe this is because I still use gperf 3.0.4 !?)

Possibly. See this thread:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2017-02/msg00044.html

Bruno