dmd test coverage

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/28/2014 11:35 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 11:32:25AM -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 09:05:16PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> On 11/27/2014 4:54 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>> How do I locally test dmd for coverage? I have a fix for the missing
>>>> coverage for version.c, but I can't figure out how to test whether
>>>> it's actually working.
>>>
>>> In posix.mak for dmd, there's 'make gcov' to generate coverage data.
>>
>> I get a whole bunch of errors that say 'cannot open notes file'.  What
>> does that mean?
>>
>> Also, don't I have to first compile dmd with --coverage and run the test
>> suite before it has the coverage data??
> [...]
>
> Which I had tried (make -f posix.mak -j6 MODEL=64 CFLAGS=--coverage),
> but the compilation aborts with:
>
> 	inifile.c:101:3: error: #error SYSCONFDIR not defined
>
> which goes away when --coverage is not specified. What gives?

I don't know. Haven't tried it in a while, likely it is suffering from bit rot.